On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 02:11:12PM -0700, Timothy Swenson wrote:
> After my adventure with the Syquest drive, I thought I would use qxltool
> and see if I could get my second QWA partition working.
>
> I figured I would use qxltool to format the second partition and then see
> if I can accesses it. I have 4 partitions:
> 1 QWA 256 Meg
> 2 QWA 256 Meg
> 3 SWP 128 Meg
> 4 LNX rest of 6GB drive
>
> I used qxl in the following way:
>
> qxltool -W /dev/hda2 256 Label
>
> It seemed to be working fine until it showed 105% formatted. I stopped it
> at about 120%. I rebooted to SMSQ/E and found that I no longer have a
> win1_ drive (nor a win2_ etc.).
It didn't show this strange behaviour when formatting the syquest?
I have reformated my /dev/hda2 today with
qxltool -W /dev/hda2 0 xx xx xx
and it worked perfectly.
There is no way it could have touched the first partition when used like
this. The rest is complete mystery, can linux still see the partitions?
Could you try qxl_fschk on the partitions?
Perhaps part of the problem is that hda2 now has an unfinished filesystem.
> Now the problem is how to get everything back to where it was. Has the
> FORMAT command been fixed? I remember when I first got the Q40, FORMAT
> would totally ignore any partitions and format the entire drive. Since I
> still have a LNX partition, I don't want to experiment and found out it's
> still broken.
it is still dangerous in some circumstances.
Bye
Richard
