Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:10:58 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Iavor Raytchev <pobox@verysmall.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PartitionMagic question Message-ID: <42BDE482.5070006@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <42BDD52B.70804@verysmall.org> References: <42BDD52B.70804@verysmall.org>
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Iavor Raytchev wrote: > When I run PartitionMagic it reported 3 errors - different LBA and CHS > values - the errors are on the first sector of the FreeBSD partitions > and on the first sectors of the next two partitions (seeing from the > LBA). PartitionMagic says in all 3 cases that the LBA and CHS values > are different. In all 3 cases the CHS value is the same - 15483887 > (drive geometry is 5168/240/63). After PartitionMagic repairs the > errors everything is OK. Both OS boot well. > > My questions are - > > a) does somebody know why the errors appear? > > b) is the installation safe after the errors are fixed? I can't tell you why PM reports these errors except to say that it has done it to me on every disk I have ever used it on (all of 3 :-)). However, I always choose to ignore PM and *not* let it "fix" anything. Everything works perfectly for me without being "fixed" so I'd rather not take the risk. --Alex
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