[Elphel-support] external hdd

[Carlos Padial]

ok, i was missing msdos...   :)

thought i'll wait oleg to confirm this...

thanks

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

> Carlos,
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table = GPT ;)
>
> gparted use GPT by default, but you can specify another type of partition.
> I am not sure, but I think it should be called msdos partition table.
>
> Regards,
> Alexandre
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *De: *"Carlos Padial" <palidoestudio2 at gmail.com>
> *À: *"Oleg" <support-list at support.elphel.com>
> *Envoyé: *Mardi 20 Mars 2012 19:56:54
> *Objet: *Re: [Elphel-support] external hdd
>
>
>
> 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.
>>>>
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>>>> Carlos Padial
>>>> surreal.asturnazari.es
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