On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:01:03 +0200 (MET DST), Jerome Grimbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From my experience with QLWA format on Q40, it is better to havepartition smaller than 128 MB. I'm sure I get some havoc from 500 MB partition,
and pretty sure 256 MB is not so safe either.
Also, which version of MKpart did you use (the first one get pretty
limited with big disk).
I had no problems with huge partitions so far, although I do partition from Atari-Fdisk and not from MKPART which is one of the ugliest programs that I have ever seen. No documenation whatsoever and no explanation (ie what's that "Base Size >0"?) Even DOS Fdisk (The Horror!) is more user friendly :-)
Atari-FDISK on the other hand is one of the best partitioning programs that I have ever seen!
All I could give you would be a PE-replacement for MKpart, allowing
you to look and update the boot sector (which contains the partition
table), but I'm afraid the flash card has already died and won't work.
Anyway, this program is like a heavy bazooka, there is no protection
and the user is assumed to know what he does... In particular, I still do not know from where in SMSQ/E the system get the CHS values.
My program only allow to touch the partition table, but if the CHS values are on the first sector and you crashed it, I do not know how you could restore them... until I update the program, at least!
So, what's your thought ?
That should be from Sector 0 on the IDE hard drive (or emulated hard drive in a CF's case) (like QubIDE does) if my memory doesn't fool me.
Some CF brands (ie Lexar that I strongly recommend to NOT buy for use on a QL) do modify Sector 0 during boot up and thus information is lost. Nasta has more information (as he did the actual tests) on the subject.
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