Re: Cfdisk VS Fdisk??

2005-03-15 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings Ray and Chuck; thanks for your input.. I'm using v 2.12 of both Fdisk and CFdisk, neither of which was the problem so the subject line was, actually, in error.. Apprently I had three malfunctions at a time, masking the true problem: One bad HD, a flaky flat HD cable and me... Doing all t

Re: Cfdisk VS Fdisk??

2005-03-13 Thread chuck gelm
Ray Olszewski wrote: I don't know what version of fdisk Slackware is shipping. MY Debian-Sid system is perhaps six months out of date, and it has fdisk version 2.12 ("fdisk -v") and cfdisk and cfdisk 2.12 (cfdisk -v"). With these versions, I've seen no problems with drives up to 250 GB or so. M

Re: Cfdisk VS Fdisk??

2005-03-13 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 08:15 AM 3/13/2005 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote: Greetings: Using both Fdisk and Cfdisk for years I've never run into the latest "discovery," and was wondering if anyone else has experienced it.. Various MotherBoards and, mostly, Slackware distribs, I've standardised on Slack 9.0 or 9.1, kernel 2.4

Cfdisk VS Fdisk??

2005-03-13 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: Using both Fdisk and Cfdisk for years I've never run into the latest "discovery," and was wondering if anyone else has experienced it.. Various MotherBoards and, mostly, Slackware distribs, I've standardised on Slack 9.0 or 9.1, kernel 2.4.20 or 2.4.22 on all machines.. Evaluating a T