From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:24:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:24:37 -0500 Received: from mail.wave.co.nz ([203.96.216.11]:8256 "EHLO mail.wave.co.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 20:24:35 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 14:24:32 +1300 From: Mark van Walraven To: Linux Kernel mailing list Subject: Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) Message-ID: <20010127142432.B29823@mail.wave.co.nz> Mail-Followup-To: Linux Kernel mailing list In-Reply-To: <000d01c087ed$82ffb950$0201010a@runestig.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <000d01c087ed$82ffb950$0201010a@runestig.com>; from Peter 'Luna' Runestig on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:12:53AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 12:12:53AM +0100, Peter 'Luna' Runestig wrote: > In what situation would NT4 default to "fry the whole disk"? I've mixed > Linux/DOS/Win98/NT4/Win2000 several ways on various hardware (>8 GB disks), > with no problems at all actually. I've had Windows suddenly using the 'begin' and 'end' (CHS) fields in the partition table entry for a FAT32 partition when it should have been using 'start' and 'length' (LBA) fields. The result was that everything on the FAT32 partition disappeared (according to Windows) and a couple of block groups in an ext2 partition were clobbered. Another time, I found what looked like bits of the page file in the middle of a wrong partition when swapping onto the second disk. Two associates have had ext2 partitions partially overwritten by re-installing Win98. > Maybe "one single person having a problem > does not mean in any way that this is the way it occurs for 100% of the > userbase" ? All the problems in the thread smell like geometry problems to me. I never experienced one myself until I got an evil combination of disk, BIOS and filesystem. Then, ZAP! Regards, Mark. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/