On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Guest section DW wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 06:57:20PM +0200, Roman Seidl wrote:
>
> > > > I have severe Problems with an IDE Notebook HD. The Partition Table is
> > > > corrupted (this happened in some combination of Linux and Win2k
> >
> > I tried it with a common 2.2 kernel (redhat 6.1, redhat 6.2, corel
> > linux, suse 6.2 and Mandrake 7)
> >
> OK. But 2.2 doesn't have this loopct check, so that might be your first attempt:
> take linux/fs/partitions/msdos.c from a 2.3 source and compare with drivers/block/genhd.c
> from a 2.2 source, and add in extended_partition() the check that prevents looping.
> Maybe that suffices.
I used the latest 2.3 Kernel now an it worked fine. Thanks for your Help -
seems as if the problem I had is already solved anyway. Without Linux i
would have had to send the drive back to ibm.
mfg
roman
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