At 11:40 PM 7/21/2005 +0000, Mark wrote:
Are any of the tests that have been suggested (other kernels, MS-DOS, ommitting VDS, trying UDMA2, older versions of FDISK, etc.) going to help in getting this problem fixed? I have a repeatable problem (always a good thing) and have, I think, done a pretty good job isolating it. I will be glad to try another test when it will help, but I am not inclined to start running more tests at random! :-) This has taken an unbelievable amount of time to isolate!
My point, which may have been buried, is that I don't think you or anyone else should use FDISK at all until at least the problems I listed are fixed. It's just a dangerous piece of software right now, with no protections on errors. Any disk read error or failure to interpret something from the BIOS properly will eat your disk MBR. No good, no good at all.
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