[101984] in RedHat Linux List
RE: fdisk/partition hassles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank N. Stein)
Mon Nov 30 17:38:00 1998
In-Reply-To: <199811301322.WAA05953@pop3.tky.3web.ne.jp>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 15:40:10 -0600 (CST)
From: "Frank N. Stein" <kcsmart@microlink.net>
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On 30-Nov-98 Lance Cummings complained about RE: fdisk/partition
hassles:
> You said: (man, your mail client does some unusual things to text,
> including making it impossible for me to show who said what) ;-))
I'll check it after mailing this!
>> As for the error, I get one repeatedly (at boot) on a Seagate I have
>> and I've been getting it since it was installed. If it only happens
>> when you try making the swap with fdisk, and then afterward on at
>> boot, I
>> wouldn't be too worried about it. I'm beginning to think it's
>> related to
>> timing at boot and doesn't harm anything otherwise.
>
> I don't understand at all. What error do you get at boot? I don't
> get any
> boot errors at all. And the drive is only about 3 months old.
> Usually they
> fail immediately or go for a long time. I think the drive is fine.
I get seek errors that look similar but not the same as the error you
described. But, it started the day I got it and has been going for
months the same way without any hitch whatsoever and I don't believe it
is any cause for concern.
I was simply stating that if you were to get errors in logs (similar to
what has been described on one of these lists before) that were not
occurring during boot, but during normal operation _after_ the booting
process has finished, the drive could be going out or already out of
whack. Many have reported problems such as this even with brand new WD,
Maxtor and Seagate drives. My Seagate works fine. I already lost a WD
and am closing in on the parting breath of a Maxtor. Such as I stated
are the symptoms I see.
>> But, if you get it repeatedly afterward, be concerned about the
>> drive
>> going out, even if it's new.
>
> Like I say, PM seemed to make everything happy -- including Linux
> fdisk. I'm not too happy that a Windows app apparently does a
> cleaner
> job of partition creation that Linux' own fdisk. But as I say, it
> may be
> because PM created the extended in front of that primary.
I'd say bad drive isn't the problem then.
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Excuse my english; I went to US public school.
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