Civileme wrote:
> OK NOW I can say kdf is not at fault, but we have one helluva bug in the filesystem
> persisting through 6.1, 7.0 and 7.1. This is PARTITIONED for
> 6388704 blocks and allows use of only about 2000000 of them....
>
> Why didn't you see this?
>
> My guess is that you didn't have a legacy of cranky IDEs from a
> windows-sort-of-installation where you had to set the BIOS to NORMAL or LARGE to
> get the disk to work at all. Disks, I might add, that will be rotated out as soon
> as budget permits. All the other disks with this problem are also set either to
> LARGE or NORMAL in the BIOS. The LBA mounts work sem to work fine.
I have strictly, ever since experiencing the fdisk and Disk Druid
bugs, set up all disks LBA (involving conversion (backup, remove all
partitions, set LBA in the bios, repartition, restore data) without
data loss - that's a real chore!) and used only Partition Magic for
ALL partitioning and resizing, including Windows partitions. All I
let DrakX do is set the mount point, since it is not proven software,
and there is one report of it generating overlapping partitions.
> But I think it is curious that you assume you are so correct that proper operation
> at your site disproves my claim from experience at mine.
Is that not what has happened? I am very glad that I sparked you
into having another look at this and that kdf gets the credit for
making you first aware that all was not well.
Partitioning problems can be very subtle and set totally disastrous
time bombs, no joke, no joke, no joke! NO JOKE!
> Perhaps you wrote that response faster than you intended?
I always doing that (and getting into trouble <g>).
There is an excellent DOS utility on the Partition Magic rescue
floppies called PARTINFO. This is NOT the same as the Windows PM
PARTINFO option. Run this for a full diagnostic report on everything
wrong with your partition tables. I will not use a drive until
PARTINFO produces no errors and no warnings. Running this is my
insurance premium, and so far, so good!
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Mandrake Linux.
