Discuss digest, Vol 1 #193 - 11 msgs

[Robert La Ferla]

Thanks.  I'm really desperate now because I can't watch TV or record
shows tonite.  ;-)

I only have one 40GB hard drive (slave) attached to my system via the
secondary IDE channel.  I can't use the primary channel because the
connector is blocked by a cable holder (stupid Dell rackmount design.)
I use a bootable floppy to load Linux.  They call it "TivoMad" because
in addition to the kernel, it has a bunch of Tivo disk utilities on it.
The first problem I have is that I'm not sure how to properly partition
and format the hard drive under DOS.  I tried two different procedures
that both failed.  The first was to create a primary partition for the
whole disk and the second attempt was creating a minimal primary
partition with the remainder of the disk on the extended partition.  I
then created one logical partition that spanned the entire extended
partition.  However, when I boot into Linux using the TivoMad floppy, it
says: "block 0 has signature c033 instead of 1492" followed by "unknown
partition table"  So, I'm thinking that somehow the disk wasn't
partitioned or formatted properly.  Under MS-DOS, I am able to copy
files to the partitions though.  The other idea is that somehow that
boot floppy kernel doesn't have VFAT support like you are suggesting.
But the documentation and examples all use /mnt/dos so you would think
that it would have it.  I'm going to try using my real Linux boot drive
(SCSI) to see if that works.  I didn't want to connect it because I was
afraid that I may accidently copy over it but perhaps it can help me
debug this.  I may also try using the boot CD-ROM but I'll have to
remove that cable holder to get access to the primary ide channel...

Frustrated,
Robert

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To: discuss at blu.org
From: Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Subject: Re: HELP: Problems mounting Windows disk under Linux (TIVO)
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 07:28:09 -0500

On thing I see wrong here. It appears that both IDE drives are on your
primary channel. Disk numbering works like:
hda - primary master
hdb - primary slave
hdc - secondary master
hdd - secondary slave.
It is better if you have 2 hard drives to put them on different IDE
channels, but they work fine on the same channel.
I routinely mount Windows Vfat partitons on my Linux system.
Another thing, you need to have the DOS FAT and Windows VFAT file
systems
built either into your kernel or as modules.
Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Help...  I'm upgrading my Tivo (Linux) by adding a second IDE hard
drive
> but I have to make a backup of my drive first.  Here's my problem:  I
> have a new 40GB IDE disk set initially as a "master".  Using a Win98
> startup floppy, I ran "fdisk" and created a single primary partition.
I
> then formatted the C: drive using "format".  I switched the jumper on
> the new drive to "slave", and added my original Tivo drive as "master"

> and rebooted using a special Linux boot floppy (TivoMad in case you're

> interested.)  Here I have to mount the slave drive so I can backup the

> original drive as a "file" on the new ide disk.  When I type:  "mount
> /dev/hdd1 /mnt/dos", it gives me a "FAT bread" error.  What do I need
to
> do to get this to work?  BTW -- I want to be able to use the ide disk
in
> my Windows box after doing this backup so I can't use ext2.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
> Tivo Upgrade:
> http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/