Subject: Warning: Adaptec afdisk may damage your partition table
From: [email-masked] (Pete Chown)
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 14:11:43 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

Adaptec distribute a rewrite of fdisk - afdisk - which is used to
maintain the partition table on SCSI drives.  Under certain
circumstances this program may destroy your partition table.

If you want to use afdisk, just make a note of the contents of the
partition table before you start.  If you get corruption, you can
restore the table from this - afdisk only damages the partition table,
not the partitions themselves.

Afdisk sometimes reports cylinder numbers wrongly, so use the Linux
fdisk to determine the old contents of your partition table.

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