[Elphel-support] external hdd

Carlos Padial palidoestudio2 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 10:47:16 PDT 2012


yes, this seems to be said in fdisk

| /dev/hda1 1 60802 488386583+ ee EFI GPT

but i dont know about this. What kind of partition is expected to work?
some guidance will be helpful.

best regards.

2012/3/20 Alexandre Poltorak <polto at alsenet.com>

> Hi Carlos,
>
> It may be that you have partitioned it as GPT partitions.
>
> Best regards,
> Alexander
> ------------------------------
>
> *De: *"Carlos Padial" <palidoestudio2 at gmail.com>
> *À: *"Oleg" <support-list at support.elphel.com>
> *Envoyé: *Mardi 20 Mars 2012 15:40:39
> *Objet: *[Elphel-support] external hdd
>
>
> hi oleg
>
> now i have removed again the internal hdd and want to try the external
> sata.
>
> i have an external hdd with two partitions:
> dev/sdc1 344gb ext4
> dev/sdc2 121gb ext2
>
> i want to use the second one, i formatted it not to big (120gb, as the
> internal).  I formatted the ext2 in my computer, not in camera...
>
> i get this in the boot log:
>  ----------------------------
>
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
>
> ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
>
> ide: ETRAX FS built-in ATA DMA controller
>
> cris_ide_init()
>
> hda: ST3500630AS, ATA DISK drive
>
> ide0 at 0x10000000-0x10000007,0x2c000000 on irq 65
>
> hda: max request size: 128KiB
>
> hda: 976773168 sectors (500107 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=60801/255/63,
> (U)DMA
>
> hda: cache flushes supported
>
>  hda: hda1
>
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> ------------------------------
>
> and in the camera from telnet:
>
> [root at Elphel353 /]829# fdisk -l
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      1K-Blocks  Id System
> /dev/hda1               1       60802      488386583+ ee EFI GPT
> [root at Elphel353 /]829# cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name
>
>    3     0  488386584 hda
>    3     1  488386583 hda1
>   31     0     131072 mtdblock0
>   31     1        256 mtdblock1
>   31     2       7936 mtdblock2
>   31     3      24576 mtdblock3
>   31     4      81920 mtdblock4
>   31     5      12288 mtdblock5
>
> ------------------------------
> in camogmgui i see the partition detected but cant mount it.
>
> dont know if it is detecting the right partition. It's right to use an hdd
> with more than one partition?
>
> thanks again.
>
> --
> Carlos Padial
> surreal.asturnazari.es
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Carlos Padial
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