Robert D. Hilliard wrote: > > From time to time I have seen messages on this list and elsewhere > about Win95 overwriting Linux partitions. > > Is there an effective procedure to stop this from happening? > > Bob >
This happened to me because (I believe) I created the DOS partition above 1024 cylinders. DOS95 seemed to simply modulo the cylinder number by 1024, thus writing all over the Linux partition. (This may be a well known feature of DOS, although I didn't know it. I probably should have taken the hint when DOS fdisk wouldn't correctly report on its own partition, even though it seemed to be working.) I solved the problem by setting the disk into LBA mode in the BIOS. As I understand it Linux does not use the BIOS (although LILO does) but it does honour the LBA addressing. No doubt people with a better understanding of this will correct me if I am wrong. I have another large disk which is not running in LBA mode. In this case there is also a DOS partition, but below 1024 cylinders. This has been stable for about a year. Evan. -- Evan Thomas Department of Physiology University of Melbourne Parkville, 3052 ph: 9344-5849 fax: 9344-5818 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
