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Mustafa Soysal MS57 <mistik@rahul.net> wrote:

>In article <597n14$4qk@fountain.mindlink.net>,
>Jack Bowling <jcbowling@mindlink.bc.ca> wrote:
>>In message <5977ak$en7@samba.rahul.net> - Mustafa Soysal MS57
>><mistik@rahul.net>17 Dec 1996 22:37:08 GMT writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>Subject says it all.  A 4GB disk turned into a 1GB disk.
>>>
>>>IBM doesn't know how to help.
>>>
>>>Drive manufacturer checked with a utility for the internal geometry
>>>information, that shows 4GB.  There isn't a problem as we have first
>>>suspected.
>>>
>>>On top of all this, it could destroy the replacement drive exactly the
>>>same way.
....
>this happens (daily to every few days).
>
Did you verify your partition entries? I had a similar problem
(partition table crashed every few days) with my new IBM-DORS-Disk and
could fix the problem. It was neither a problem of the controller nor
of the disk. I myself caused the problem by physically copying the
partition (c:) that is in front of the partition sector for the
extended partitions. I copied the partition from my old drive where
the partition was slightly larger than the new destination partition.
os/2 and dos still used the partition so as if it had the old size and
os/2 does not check partition limits during use and even not in its
chkdsk. So I destroyed the partition sector and some of the following
sectors (in the os/2 partition D:) every time, when sectors where used
at end of the partition.
I did not find a tool that tells about this inconsistency. Even
partition magic (partinfo) did not find anything wrong with the
partition. (If I copied the partition using partition magic it could
have corrected the problem but I used the dd-command from linux, which
told me that the target file (=partition) was smaller but I did not
see a possible problem in it).
When I found some recently produced data of my C: partition in the
partition sector I reformatted (logical) my c-partition and restored
the c: files from a tar-archive. From that time on the problem was
fixed. 
I 

Gruss
  Hanns-Peter
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// Hanns-Peter Ermert, Berlin/Germany - ermert@berlin.snafu.de