Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!fuug!davasun!jpk From: jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi (JP Koivisto) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: FAT Table Errors Keywords: fat, msdos, windows, norton Message-ID: <1991Feb15.085317.20324@davasun.data.nokia.fi> Date: 15 Feb 91 08:53:17 GMT References: <454@adphdw20.UUCP> Reply-To: jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi Organization: Nokia Data Systems OY, Helsinki, Finland Lines: 23 dtb@adpplz.UUCP (Tom Beach) writes: >I once had a problem with a disk when trying to put a UNIX partition and a >DOS partition on the same drive. UNIX always worked fine, but the DOS >partition got increasing FAT table erors until it became unuseable. I had similar problems (long ago) when I had DOS & SCO Xenix 2.1.3 on the same drive. In the end I found the problem was that the XENIX partition MUST ALWAYS BE THE ACTIVE ONE! The Xenix happily used the active partition for something (swapping, piping,... ?) WITHOUT CHECKING IF IT WAS THE XENIX partition! I solved the problem by having XENIX always 'active' and used a (partially) selfmade primary boot where I can choose the partition to boot from. That worked still with SCO Xenix/386 2.3.2 and DOS 4.01... >By the way, this is probably the wrong group for this discussion! I dunno, as I haven't been following the discussion... jpk - JP Koivisto, Nokia Data OY, Finland --- EMail: jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi