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- From: david@prism.demon.co.uk (David Metcalfe)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!prism.demon.co.uk!david
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- Subject: 0.97pl4 breaks SCSI extended partition code
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 19:57:51 +0000
- Message-ID: <716010250snx@prism.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk
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- I recently upgraded from the mcc-interim version of 0.97pl2 to pl4.
- However, when Linux boots up with pl4 it fails to read my extended
- DOS partition on the SCSI drive with the following error message
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- Unable to read partition table of device 0803
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- My disks layouts are as follows:
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- Disk 0: ESDI
- 1 DOS primary partition
- 1 DOS extended partition with 3 logical DOS drives
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- Disk 1: SCSI with Adaptec 1542B
- 1 DOS primary partition
- 1 DOS extended partition with 2 logical DOS drives
- 1 Linux partition with extfs
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- Note that I am using the extfs on the Linux partition. However, the
- problem lies with the DOS extended partition with the 2 logical
- drives on the SCSI disk. The partition is detected but not the
- logical drives. Note that the extended partition on the ESDI drive
- is interpreted correctly.
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- I use one of the logical drives on the SCSI disk has my DOS->Linux
- transfer disk as I have Stacker installed on the other drives, so its
- important that I get access to that drive.
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- I have had no problems with either the mcc-interim 0.97pl2 release or
- any other kernels since extended partition reading was implemented on
- SCSI drives. However, I only converted from the minix fs to the
- extfs recently at the same time as I installed mcc-interim 0.97pl2.
-
- David
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- David Metcalfe david@prism.demon.co.uk
- +44 81 361 3327 dmetcalf@cix.compulink.co.uk
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