I have a Western Digital WD10EARS Caviar disk drive that comes up with a strange Extended Partition Offset is misaligned by 1024 bytes when I have formatted the drive using Disk Utility and with GParted. Should I be concerned about this?
About 4 days ago the system started acting strange and getting general protection faults (Intel Processor) I rebooted with a standalone version of linux and the hardware seemed okay, until I started to check the drives, the software was unable to remove the swap partition from the logical partition. Finally I was able to reformat the whole drive, but the Disk Utility under Ubuntu keeps warning me about a misaligned extended logical parition boundary being off by 1024 bytes. I don't know what to do about this? Is this a wierd error from the Disk Utility itself? I don't want to run with a drive in an unknown condition. Are there any utilities that will correctly check the drive? Thanks for your suggestions Randall btw: 64 bit processor chip _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
