On Mon, 12 May 1997, Ken Gaugler wrote: > Having moved my Debian system from a 850Meg IDE to a 1.2 Gig IDE that > had been previously used for Win95 [I know, but I _have_ to use > Win95 for certain apps], it appears that the partition table is > really messed up. > > Using LBA in the BIOS settings, Debian seems to be happy with it, > but DOS/Win95 doesn't report the sizes correctly. If I use Extended > CHS for the BIOS, DOS/WIn95 is happy but Debian is not.
Sounds as if you're just casually switching between ECHS and LBA. This is very risky, from what I understand. You could mangle the whole disk contents if you're unlucky. Perhaps it might be worth reading the EIDE ATA FAQ whose home page is http://thef-nym.sci.kun.nl/~pieterh/storage.html > At this point I am beginning to think that for a 2-disk system, I > should make the first one Win95 exclusively, and make the second > one strictly a Linux disk (and use LBA on the Linux disk). That's what I'm doing at the moment, but I don't think my methods will apply because my Win95 disks are a mere 170MB (the University gives these away nowadays) and my Linux disks are SCSI. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
