[Elphel-support] external hdd

[Carlos Padial]

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

i used gparted. I never managed about GPT or other partition tables

googling for info i can only find about GUID, Apple partition map, BSD
disklabel... what should be our disk partition type?

if i had to do the format only from the camera, i must wait to have a new
hdd


> 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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>>
>>
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>> Carlos Padial
>> surreal.asturnazari.es
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Carlos Padial
surreal.asturnazari.es
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