[NTLUG:Discuss] Win95 Ext'd (LBA) on my Linux box - where'd that come from

[Jay Urish]

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>>>So, can anyone shed some light on what is going on here, and if I am 
>>>facing a "future of problems" with this Win95 Ext'd partition.
>>>Thanks in advan
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>>If I were in your shoes, I would back up all important data and wipe the 
>>drives and re-partition. All this software IDE raid stuff is horse pookey.
>>If you want a RAID, you get some scsi disks and a raid controller. I have 
>>had to try and fix several of these rigged up raids and it is a nightmare 
>>from hell.
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>RAID issue - total agreement on my part - that's why when it broke I 
>wasn't too interested in trying to rebuild it.
>Win95 Ext'd (LBA) issue - this was a complete, repartition, format, check 
>for bad blocks, and do it in ext3 filesystem (instead of ext2 that it was 
>in), so where did that come from, and will it cause problems?  I did 
>notice that the RH 7.3 box on which the extended partition is not Win95, 
>is using the ext2 filesystem.
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On the second issue, maybe something corrupted. Did you use disk druid or 
something to set up the drives?

Jay Urish       W5GM            Jack of all Trades. Ace of None.
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