Re: Linux - Win95 compatability
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.
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Evan Thomas
Department of Physiology
University of Melbourne
Parkville, 3052
ph: 9344-5849 fax: 9344-5818
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