OK - upgrading to 9a resulted in the same thing: a failed partition. I think this is mainly because of how this drive has been treated; this drive has been upgraded from the original drive to a new drive, and the PC software symantec ghost was used in the upgrade to transfer the partitions, resulting in partitions that were slightly different then what emplode was expecting..

So now I've finally got beta 9a working, and here's what I had to do:

a) upgrade to 9a
b) delete partition 4
c) recreate partition 4 using start cyl. 15 instead of 14..

...So now I'm up and running..My question is though - will the partitions be changed again in a future software revision? Thanks for all your help,
-mark


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