From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 25 23:11:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF20A16A41C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:11:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 706D843D49 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:11:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.37.55] ([82.41.37.55]) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:11:40 +0100 Message-ID: <42BDE482.5070006@dial.pipex.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:10:58 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050530 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Iavor Raytchev References: <42BDD52B.70804@verysmall.org> In-Reply-To: <42BDD52B.70804@verysmall.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jun 2005 23:11:40.0514 (UTC) FILETIME=[3E9C0C20:01C579DB] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PartitionMagic question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 23:11:03 -0000 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