Re: [SLE] Installation and Parted
From: Stan Glasoe (srglasoe_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/02/04
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 08:57:45 -0600
On Sunday 01 February 2004 7:30 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:06:06 -0600
> Stan Glasoe <srglasoe@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > I've seen that exact issue here when I thought I had trashed a windows
> > FAT32 or NTFS partition. I thought it may have been a corrupted MBR
> > but it kept happening after I had fdisked and repartitioned it. The
> > drive was bad. It was an IBM and their diagnostics didn't see anything
> > wrong with it. IBM tech support issued an RMA immediately.
> However, in my case, this only happens when I run the installer. Parted
> installed on SuSE 9.0 has no problem with it, neither does qtparted when
> I boot Knoppix. If I had some sort of corroboration with more that one
> tool, I would be concerned.
>
>
> --
> Jerry Feldman
I have 3 drives to play with. When the one went bad with these errors, parted
could READ it just fine but it could not ALTER it unless I did an fdisk
booted from floppy or CD. Key here is re-WRITING a change to the partition
table once you're booted. IF you are able to re-WRITE a new partition table
to that drive while booted to SUSE 9.0, then you have a different problem
than I had. I couldn't alter that drive's partition table in SUSE or Windows
but I could if I rebooted to floppy or CD and did the whole drive wipe;
couldn't fix any single partition, had to do a complete drive wipe.
I was trying to change partition sizes for whatever reason and found this
issue. I thought it was Windows related because I kept a FAT32 or NTFS
partition as the first one on the drive. Took a long while to figure out the
drive was bad since several diagnostics couldn't find any errors with it. No
bad sectors, no bad writes, no reallocation of bad blocks, no SMART errors,
etc.
In fact, I have two of these IBM drives and both have failed in the same
manner. Both have been replaced, 100% failure rate. Last IBM drives I'll
buy... they're Hitachi now, whew!
My milage varied...
Stan
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