Re: Last partition sectors access problem

2002-12-09 Thread bob parker
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:00, Javier Miqueleiz wrote: > Hello everybody. > > I have a minor problem concerning Debian 3.0 rev. 0. The last (1 or 2) > sectors of some partitions can't be accessed. This isn't a hardware problem > (tested using disk manufacterer tools or "dd if=/dev/hda"). > The intriguin

Re: Last partition sectors access problem

2002-12-08 Thread nate
Javier Miqueleiz said: > I suspect CHS and LBA translation problems can be involved. When running > lilo it displays the following warning: most likely that its not a bios problem. Linux ignores the bios(thankfully). I've had linux display messages like "hda: bios reports size of XXX but size i

Last partition sectors access problem

2002-12-08 Thread Javier Miqueleiz
Hello everybody. I have a minor problem concerning Debian 3.0 rev. 0. The last (1 or 2) sectors of some partitions can't be accessed. This isn't a hardware problem (tested using disk manufacterer tools or "dd if=/dev/hda"). The intriguing fact is that it happens when normally booting from HD, bu