Followup to my message with more news. It is not a problem with mount_ntfs. Indeed, it seems to be a problem with the ataraid code.
Today I booted from 5.3RC4 install CD, and mounted NO partition on the problem disk. But this was enough to corrupt the partition again. How can I know if the ATA RAID code is LBA48 compatible? The chipset is a Promise 20378, which is supported, in theory. João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just bought a Seagate 250G SATA drive to run in a shared > desktop at home. It should have 3 boot partitions: 16M FreeBSD 5, 16M > linux, 32M NTFS for Windows XP. The remaining wil be formatted with > FAT32 to be used as a common data for the 3 operating systems. > > Well, everything seemed to be fine. I copied the FreeBSD partition > from the previous installed disk with dump(8), and installed XP from > CDs. But suddenly, the data and NTFS partitions began to disappear. I > don't know exactly what were the steps used to crash the disk, but it > happened at least 3 times, after 3 full windows installs (which are not > quick, for my sadness). In the last one I could almost detect it. > > I finished the initial windows instalation, and booted into FreeBSD > to make sure the NTFS and FAT partitions were available. They seemed to > be. Then I reboot into windows, and it crashed, with a missing HAL.DLL. > Boot again into FreeBSD, and the NTFS partition still seemed ok. But I > gone into the \WINDOWS\system32, and did an ls. The kernel pushed some > errors with "bad magic" or something like that, and the file system > locked. Also, the boot information for the first FAT32 partition has > been completely destroyed, leaving it unreadable. > > The mainboard is an ASUS K8V, with 1G RAM. I'm running the 32 bit > version of FreeBSD, although it is an AMD64 machine. The 250G SATA disk > is on the promise RAID, and I have another PATA 120G on the promise > RAID, and a 40G PATA on standard IDE. > > I already had a problem with a previous ASUS board in which the > promise raid could not deal with disks bigger than 120G. The symptons > were very similar. Could this be the problem? Does somebody know if > FreeBSD or mount_ntfs has any kind of disk size limitation in this hardware? > > Oh, I did remember now that I was using mount_ntfs -o noatime, if > that matters. > > Thanks for any help, > > Jonny > > PS: Now it has been fully reformatted with no NTFS, using FAT32 instead. > But I'm afraid of getting into FreeBSD again in this machine. Please > help! :-( > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > From - Mon _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
