On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Raider wrote:
> No. The other drive never had a problem. And this is
> another disturbing fact. So the old drive is a 560M... 535M
> actually samsung drive. I can consider it a no name. And still it
> is about 5 years old. And in this 5 years it suffered quite a lot.
> I used it as removable media in the freezing winter or in summer. I
> did a lot of repartitioning. I formated it a lot. And there is no
> problem, besided that lost clusters that appear in dos... that is a
> system fault, not hardware related. At the same time my 8g quantum
> with so many copyrighted standards written on its wrapping gives me
> a headache.
>
You get's what you pays for. I got my hd for free, 'cuz it stopped
working in a windows box. I formatted it and put linux on it and have
used it for 2 years. When it is very hot and humid sometimes it won't
work at all until I unplug all the cables and plug them back in again,
then it works fine.
Early on in this piece, I think you mentioned that you had a
dos-extended partition that linux couldn't see, and thought that might
be the problem. I should have paid better attention, maybe. Then later
you said cfdisk refused to touch it, saying FATAL ERROR: Bad primary
partition. You might want to use the x and d commands of fdisk to dump
the raw partition table and see if you or I or someone can make sense of
it. script is a handy way to capture a session to a file so you could
mail that. I'm wondering if the dos extended partition doesn't land on
top of your linux / partition. That would account for what you've
observed. There's a struct partition in <linux/genhd.h> that describes
the entries, which start at 0x1be of the MBR, and/or put it in the mail
and I'll have a look at it.
Maybe we are starting to get somewhere. :-)
Lawson
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