Mounting hard drive; Hello, where are you?

Tue Oct 28 03:17:33 UTC 2003

Have you tried sfdisk?

Le 27 Octobre 2003 21:07, Madison Kelly a écrit :
> [root at hannah root]# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>     Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1       522   4192933+   b  Win95 FAT32
> /dev/hda2           523       587    522112+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda3           588       718   1052257+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda4           719      9076  67135635    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5           719      8036  58781803+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6          8037      8558   4192933+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda7          8559      9076   4160803+  83  Linux
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>     Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb1   *         1        33    265041   83  Linux
> /dev/hdb2            34       164   1052257+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hdb3           165      9729  76830862+  83  Linux
> [root at hannah root]# fdisk -l /dev/hdc
> [root at hannah root]#
>
> Nothing...
>
>    After posting I started thinking; this is a Dell box and I had a
> problem once before where another Dell box with WinME/FAT32 had been
> setup using some funky PartitionMagic-type porgram so that the FAT32
> partition was not created as it would normally be. In that case the
> reasult was a drive where the backup copy of the FAT was placed on a
> logical head higher than the drive's default number of logical heads. I
> wonder if that might be similar (in a different way) to what is
> happening here.
>
>    More: When I cat partitions -something- is seen:
>
> [root at hannah proc]# cat partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name     rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect
> wuse running use aveq
>
>    22     0 1073741823 hdc 2 6 16 0 0 0 0 0 -10 1164540 31326712
>     3     0   78150744 hda 9631 29172 308692 694810 3549 5535 72706
> 185720 -9 1167390 31040812
>     3     1    4192933 hda1 1 3 8 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10
>     3     2     522112 hda2 15 28 86 210 11 2 26 1690 0 1900 1900
>     3     3    1052257 hda3 2 3 16 20 0 0 0 0 0 20 20
>     3     4          1 hda4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>     3     5   58781803 hda5 316 4051 34562 594690 437 214 5184 5670 2
> 299670 601020
>     3     6    4192933 hda6 9271 24936 273642 99630 3097 5316 67464
> 178360 0 54770 278030
>     3     7    4160803 hda7 10 59 162 70 4 3 32 0 0 70 70
>     3    64   78150744 hdb 9 51 120 70 0 0 0 0 -11 1170530 30162072
>     3    65     265041 hdb1 1 3 8 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 10
>     3    66    1052257 hdb2 1 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>     3    67   76830862 hdb3 1 3 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> [root at hannah proc]#
>
>    Notice the first line?
>
>    Do you (or someone) know FDISK well enough to know what I might try
> to get a closer look at the drive? Well, I will keep looking... Thanks!
>
> Madison
>
> Marc Lijour (Professeur d'Informatique) wrote:
> > Le 27 Octobre 2003 20:54, Madison Kelly a écrit :
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>   I am trying to do something very simple but it is being anything
> >>but... I have a laptop hard drive here that I am trying to image before
> >>I erase. Simple enough; I connect it as Master on the secondary channel,
> >>boot, '# mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/backup'... nothing. Try '#fdisk
> >>-l', nothing. I know that hardware-wise it's fine because I tried (uggh)
> >>booting my Win2k part and there it is seen fine. Also, on boot the BIOS
> >>sees it (not that it matters to Linux) and on powerdown it reports to
> >>flush HDC...
> >
> > you did fdisk /dev/hdc?
> >
> >>   So, does anyone have any idea why a seemingly fine connected FAT32
> >>hard drive (10GB) would not be seen by Linux's FDISK but it WOULD be
> >>found by Win2k? Isn't that pretty bass-ackwards? Any help is appreciated!
> >>
> >>Madison
> >>
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