On Thursday 04 March 2010, David Goodenough wrote: > I have a hard drive with a primary partition and an extended partiton. > QTParted says that it has /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda5 which is > what one would expect, but when I boot the disk the kernel reports > that there are only the /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 partitons, no /dev/hda5. > > The really odd thing is that qtparted is running on the kernel which > can not see /dev/hda5. > > The disk is question is a 2.5" 160GB drive, and is quite new. The kernel > log shows no errors. > > Any idea what might cause this and how to fix it (preferably without > repartitioning the disk as backing it all up would take a while and also > I do not know how I would access the data in /dev/hda5 if I can not see > it). > > David > Well I found out a bit more. Firstly I booted from a Knoppix CD (2.6.19) and it sees the partitions just fine. Then I looked in /var/log/kern.log (previously I had been looking in dmesg) and found:-
hda: Host Protected Area detected. ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137438 MB) ^Inative capacity is 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) hda: 268435455 sectors (137438 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16709/255/63 hda: cache flushes supported hda: hda1 hda2 < > hda: p1 size 302343237 exceeds device capacity, enabling native capacity hda: detected capacity change from 137438952960 to 160041885696 which obviously did not used to happen with the Knoppix kernel, or the older 2.6.26 kernel I ran from this disk before. Anyone know what this Host Protected Area and what I do with it and how I make it detect the disk properly? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003041951.10298.david.goodeno...@btconnect.com
