Hi all,
Here's one that's got me stumped... RedHat 6.0 has managed to
confuse the partition table on my second IDE drive *again* - this
seems to happen almost every time I install it (long story,
other-project related).
I've got two IDE drives, both as masters on separate channels. The
first one has many and varied OS partitions on it (mostly
primaries), the second has a primary partition (for Windows apps)
and a huge logical partition for archives and saved stuff. It's
this partition that's unhappy.
I'll run through the reactions that it's got:
DOS7: "dir" returns garbage, but it thinks there's an E: drive
there.
Norton Disk Doctor ('95 version): Spews. Not surprising really! :)
Win98: An E: drive is there, albeit unaccessible and with no label.
An F: drive appears, showing everything that E: normally would.
It's all fine, it all works, but it's SLOW.
Win2K: (don't ask) Sees the E: drive as usual, but runs SLOW.
Everything works normally.
Linux: During boot, the kernel comes up with [PTBL] (which does not
normally appear) and the geometry of the hard drive, listing all of
the partitions as it should. I can mount and play with my /dev/hdc5
without any troubles at all, but again, it's SLOW.
I did some research on the [PTBL] entry (www.google.com/linux), and
found that it it's the result of the kernel interpreting your
partitions based on their start and end flags... Certainly another
testament to Linux' ability to grapple with almost anything as it
arrives, but it's a bit of a pain nonetheless.
Any recommendations on ways of getting my partition table up and
running normally again? I'd love to be able to do it without
resorting to "Lost & Found" (very handy PowerQuest recovery
software), and I'm sure there are some funky ways of correcting all
of this under Linux... :)
- Jeff
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