I suspect diskdrake to have a bug in certain conditions. I have noticed several mdk installations where fdisk or cfdisk complains about overlapping partitions, or partitions not ending on cylinder boundary (for ex the first primary ending on 788 for exemple and the extented partition starting at 788 too !). It was the case on MDK90, I dont know if it's still true on MDK9.1B1 ?
Pascal Cavy Le Mardi 14 Janvier 2003 15:35, Allan Mee a �crit : > hmmm I wonder if you have got/had the same problem as me - Windoze reported > an error in disk size reported and "fixed it" during a defrag session - > then I got a message similar to yours (I can't remeber the exact message) > and some utilities (including fips 2.0) said I had overlapping partitions - > yet I had done an automatic install (I just fdisk x% for Windows and let > Linux automatically take care of the remainder (120 GB - x%) space - so far > I have been unable to reproduce the circumstances but I now view MS > Scandisk and Defrag with more suspicion (and caution) than ever! > Allan > > > > > > > From: "J. Greenlees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that? > >Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:33:20 -0800 > > > >Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >> Getting this message whenever I boot up the machine, multiple times at > >>different stages of the boot: > >> > >>ldm_validate_partition_table(): disk read failed. > >> > >>no idea why or what it means. What other info will help? > > > >only time I've seen disk read errors was when the drive was failing to > >register with the bios. > >or crashing ( ancient drive ) > >if your partition table got damaged at all that could concievably cause > >same error. > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail -- Pascal Cavy - VMF __________________________________________________________________ Running 3 days, 20:53, 4 users, load average: 0.86, 0.59, 0.62 (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2-4mdk)) Kernel Linux version 2.4.20-2mdkenterprise
