#6487: [intel] overlapping partitions cannot be detected ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: rainbow-demon | Owner: marcusoverhagen Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: R1 Component: Drivers/Disk | Version: R1/Development Keywords: intel, overlapping | Blocked By: Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All Blocking: | ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Haiku r38293 doesn't see partitions on my hard drive, though Windows XP sees all of them. diskpart output from Windows XP: {{{ DISKPART> Partition ### Type Size Offset ------------- ---------------- ------- ------- Partition 1 Primary 80 GB 32 KB Partition 2 Primary 66 GB 80 GB Partition 3 OEM 2778 MB 146 GB DISKPART> }}} fdisk -l output from Ubuntu {{{ Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x73657365 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 10444 83891398+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 10445 19104 69561450 b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda4 19104 19458 2844163 de Dell Utility }}} You can see that sda2 and sda4 are overlapped just by one sector and no partitions at all are detected. The most interesting line in syslog is 2295, just to be sure. -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6487> Haiku <http://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.