Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:32:03 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: partition table: chs question |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 05:59:33PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > > > It does not matter because the usage of CHS will dies soon because it was > > voted to death in Austin last week. There will only be LBA addressing > > from now on out. > > If someone has Linux and NetWare dual booted on a system, and does not > fill out the CHS fields properly for NetWare partitions, When NetWare > boots, it will wipe the partition table (it will ask you first) and > will not recognize any of the partitions. It does this because if it > sees CHS values it does not expect, it assumes the partition table > has been corrupted.
Then Netware is a bad HOST-Driver and people should expect to be hurt by using a HOST that is not compliant. It is the responsiblity of the user to tell the HOST-OS what it needs to do. Especially if one of the OSes can not be intelligent enough to adpat to the changes.
Regards,
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