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- From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: 0.97pl4 breaks SCSI extended partition code
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 00:06:44 GMT
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- In <716010250snx@prism.demon.co.uk> david@prism.demon.co.uk (David Metcalfe) writes:
-
- >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
-
- >Unable to read partition table of device 0803
-
- >My disks layouts are as follows:
-
- >Disk 0: ESDI
- > 1 DOS primary partition
- > 1 DOS extended partition with 3 logical DOS drives
-
- >Disk 1: SCSI with Adaptec 1542B
- > 1 DOS primary partition
- > 1 DOS extended partition with 2 logical DOS drives
- > 1 Linux partition with extfs
-
- >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.
-
- Okay. This looks like a generic problem with the SCSI extended partition code.
- I have seen several senarios which result in the problems described above.
-
- 1. Adding the CD-ROM filesystem extentions did it for me.
- 2. Compiling the kernel under GCC v2.2.2d did it for some
- 3. Now, looks like pl4 has blown it in this case.
-
- I was trying to work with Eric (the author of the CD-ROM stuff) to find
- out what goes wrong, but my disk controller flaked out and I haven't
- had a machine for the last week...
-
- Maybe Drew would like to look into this as a generic SCSI problem? I don;t
- know how far off the much-awaited version 2 of the SCSI drivers are, but
- maybe this is a quick-fix.
-
- I'm going to get back on this as soon as my controller is repaired (hopefully
- this weekend...)
-
- -Chris
-
-
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