Hi
I have 2 hdds both 40gb. ( Say D1 and D2) I have 2 pc's (say P1 and P2) P1- new with P4,256mb ram CDR/DVD combo drive etc.and D1 is connected here P2 old IBM branded celeron 500 64 mb RAM 52x CD ROM drive BIOS does not support CD booting and D2 is connected here The P1 pc boots XP and FC3 as XP is used by my brother. Also I have installed 2 more distros on this.
As the P2 pc does not have a FDD and CD boot is not possible I was not able to load any distros except ubuntu so it was lying idle for some time I removed D2 from the old PC P2 and connected in the P1 Pc The P1 Pc is detecting it as Primary master and Primary slave. Even FC3 recognises it as hdb.
My problems 1.I do not remember what filesystem I have created on D2 although FC3 shows some partitions. I am unable to mount them. 2. Sometimes after booting FC3 or even Slackware when I run dmesg I get some errors of DisK_read io error 3.How do i format D2 and create partitions on the same 4.My D2 is showing as 32gb even though it is 40 gb. Can this be resolved by formatting it new
Thanks and regards
Ninad Bapat
--- Ninad Bapat freeninad@gmail.com wrote:
The P1 Pc is detecting it as Primary master and Primary slave. Even FC3 recognises it as hdb.
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Thats great for a start.
My problems 1.I do not remember what filesystem I have created on D2 although FC3 shows some partitions. I am unable to mount them.
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Perform a "fdisk -l" without the quotes ofcourse and see that the o/p of the same is. Once you know the type of filesystems you can try a "mount -t <fstype> -o rw /dev/hdxx /path/to/mount".
The FStype you can play around with is ext2/ext3/xfs/reiserfs which most distros ship with these days. No idea abt ubuntu.
- Sometimes after booting FC3 or even Slackware
when I run dmesg I get some errors of DisK_read io error
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These are the old hdd's and i have a couple of these too. I too have a lot of io_error's in dmesg. I suspected one of the disks going bad but am not too sure. I would attribute the same to some ide-dma probably since i havent been able to figure out anything more.
3.How do i format D2 and create partitions on the same
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Once you have identified the paritions just do a, "mkfs.<fstype> /dev/hdxx" and voila you have a brand new FS to mount. Use mkfs.<tab><tab> at the bash prompt to know what options your OS provides. This will depend on the modules you have compiled into the kernel.
Hope that helps.
Trevor
4.My D2 is showing as 32gb even though it is 40 gb. Can this be resolved by formatting it new
Thanks and regards
Ninad Bapat
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Hi
Thanks for the replies.
I also ran knoppix 3.8.1 on my Pc. From Knoppix i ran Qt parted and it showed all the partitions on D2(hdb) Also I could access the files from knoppix. I tried fdisk and cfdisk from Knoppix console and all showed me the partitions on hdb and the size as 40gb
Earlier when I tried to access hdb(D2) from Slack 10.1 by running cfdisk it gave a fatal error.
Why is this difference in the 3 programs
Thanks and Regards Ninad
Ninad Bapat wrote:
3.How do i format D2 and create partitions on the same
That will depend on what FS you want to create. Since partition tables are written to the MBR, if you want to remove D2 and place it back in the older comp., then format it seperately by removing D1.
4.My D2 is showing as 32gb even though it is 40 gb. Can this be resolved by formatting it new
Check your HDD's jumper settings. Some HDDs have a setting for older non-40GB mobos. Use appropriate setting for 40 GB.
Regards,
Rony.
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