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Article #93Re: My hard drive does a Lazarus.
From: Svend Olaf Mikkelsen
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:00
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"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote: >Richard RUDEK <x@invalid.zeta.org.au> wrote >> If the partition table gets corrupted, it can cause the BIOS to >> decide to use a different type drive translation, other than LBA. > >The bios AUTO setting doesnt use the partition >table. It just asks the drive about its parameters, >and the drive doesnt use the partition table either. This is definitely wrong. An Award BIOS with MODE set to AUTO will attempt to determine the translation from the partition table. Award also will look at the partition table, if MODE is set to NORMAL, LARGE and maybe LBA. If the partition table does not match the setting, the BIOS will then return a disk geometry that looks as expected for the partition table, but the disk will be read and written at completely wrong locations. This is a really nasty bug. -- Svend Olaf
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