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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
 
> Three of my four drives here have developed partition table 
> problems in the past week, which I hope I have fixed (the last two 
> stayed the proper size but the last partition on each doubled 
> itself - is this possibly a BIOS problem?  They were working and I 
> only noticed the problem while trying out spinrite on them.).

Were these drives all in the same PC? Could be a serious motherboard
problem. I wouldn't use a PC that trashes hard drives that badly.

>   A friend offered a 4G scsi drive.  I have the card and what looks 
> like a scsi cable (long, blue, stiff).  To use it with linux would 
> I need to do anything more than boot with my new scsi-capable 
> kernel?

If you have the modules for your SCSI card and the disk module it will
work, barring SCSI hardware difficulties.

> Is there some advantage to having four smaller partitions instead 
> of one big one and maybe a swap partition?  A smaller partition 
> seems to boot faster and I could probably just use another 
> partition mounted on /tmp when I needed more space for compiling, 
> or use it to store .tgz packages that I don't need to get at, or 
> mount it to use in copying music files.

If you're using a DOS or Windows filesystem, you don't want many
partitions because of file fragmentation. Unix partitions should be
fine with four parts.

David
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