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

[terry]

Jay Urish wrote:

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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?

No corruption, there's no Win95 partition,     it's just that Ext'd 
(LBA) is designated as such.


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