[Elphel-support] external hdd

[Oleg]

What program did you use for formatting? What options does it have?

I'd just follow our
guide<http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=HDD_Format>for formatting
the HDD from the camera.

Yes, you can have several partitions.

Best regards,
Oleg

On 20 March 2012 11:47, Carlos Padial <palidoestudio2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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