Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Apr 2007 17:25 UTC, submitted by andymc
Version 0.67 of Visopsys was released today, with all the usual bug fixes and tweaks plus two focus areas of improvement: the IDE/ATA disk driver has been 'modernized' with PCI, DMA, and 48-bit addressing support, resulting in a raw I/O performance increase of up to 700%; additionally the Disk Manager (Partition Logic) has been re-engineered and modularized to support the later addition of new disk label types, as well as improved support for MS-DOS logical partitions (moving, creating out-of-order, etc.). Downloads are here, and the change log is here.
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2006-02-19
Don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but if you think this is any sort of alternative to PartitionMagic, then you are very much mistaken....
Partition logic has the following limitations:
* No hardware support for SCSI hard disks
* Does not work with some SATA hard disks
* Supports only DOS/Windows-style MBR partition tables (used on nearly all IBM PC-compatibles). No support for Sun or BSD disk labels, or EFI/GPT tables used on Itanium and Intel Mac platforms.
* Cannot format partitions as NTFS or EXT3. Currently supports FAT (12/16/32), EXT2, and Linux swap.
* Cannot resize FAT or EXT filesystems. Currently supports NTFS (Windows XP) and Linux swap.
* No hardware support for serial mice
* No hardware support for USB keyboards and mice. Currently supports only PS/2 keyboards and mice
* No hardware support for PCMCIA
These limitations are intended to be fixed in future releases.
Big shout to the author - I am sure it will get there, given time.
nick