On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 08:29:01PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> New development: (in some quarters, called Progress)
>
> I chatted on the phone today with WD. Apparently the ~120GB limitation
> is a consequence of my using native Windows drivers which do not have
> 48-bit addressing capability a
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New development: (in some quarters, called Progress)
I chatted on the phone today with WD. Apparently the ~120GB limitation
is a consequence of my us
ers
provide disk I/O
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David
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:54:47AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> Pigeon, a posts
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:54:47AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> Pigeon, a postscript. WD has their own BIOS on the Promise controller.
> It gets hooked in by the system BIOS and then does it's own thing
> without leaving any fingerprints elsewhere
>
> I will email Western Digital and see if I ca
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From: David Turetsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 11:58 PM
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[My latest on top]
Pigeon, I'm chicken! I think it's safer for now leaving well enough
alone and spending a l
of the plank
Thanks for all of your interest and erudition
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:25:23PM -0500, D
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 04:25:23PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> Indeed! cfdisk /dev/hde and cfdisk /dev/hdf are what is required.
> Interesting about my problem in accessing the fat32 partition on /hde,
> when I run cfdisk on this drive (WD 160GB, all available in Windows XP,
> formatted using th
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On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:57:16PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> cfdisk -P /hde and cfdisk -P /hdf both j
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:57:16PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> cfdisk -P /hde and cfdisk -P /hdf both just result in rendering /hda
> (rather nicely). Somewhere in the infos I've been warned that linux
> version of fdisk is somewhat buggy (probably in 'info fdisk')
That should be /dev/hde, /dev
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On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:05:59PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> > > [tables edited out]
> >
>
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:05:59PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> > > [tables edited out]
> >
> > Well, the /etc/fstab and fdisk -l look good to me - are you sure that
> > you have actually formatted /dev/hde5? Can you read it under windoze,
> > or do you get "Invalid media type" when you type DIR
[tables edited out]
Well, the /etc/fstab and fdisk -l look good to me - are you sure that
you have actually formatted /dev/hde5? Can you read it under windoze,
or do you get "Invalid media type" when you type DIR at the DOS prompt?
Pigeon
Nah, I have files and directories there under Windows
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On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:34:35AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 16
On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 02:34:35AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> Disk /dev/hde: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 16709 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hde1 * 1 14593 117218241 7
> HPFS/NTFS
>
0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdromiso9669 ro,user,noauto0 0
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On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:32:23AM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
> Great. fdisk -l /dev/hde gives me
>
> /dev/hde1 * ...
> /dev/hde2 ...
> /dev/hde5 ...
>
> /hde2 and /hde5 give the same starting and ending blocks, so I assume
> hde5 is the logical partition and hde2 is the extended part
Correction for the record: Both partitions on hdf are in NTFS format
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Great. fdisk -l /dev/hde
?
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David
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On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:35:25PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
>
> What is the appropriate nomenclatu
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 03:35:25PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote:
>
> What is the appropriate nomenclature for logical/entended partitions in
> fstab and elsewhere
>
> For example, hde1 (or hda1) is the base partition. If I use an extended
> partition, is that hde2 or what
> I might be able to re
What is the appropriate nomenclature
for logical/entended partitions in fstab and elsewhere
For example, hde1 (or hda1) is the base
partition. If I use an extended partition, is that hde2 or what
I just added some fstab entries,
rebooted, read the stuff fine, but now Woody is sma
What is the appropriate nomenclature
for logical/entended partitions in fstab and elsewhere
For example, hde1 (or hda1) is the
base partition. If I use an extended partition, is that hde2 or what
I just added some fstab entries,
rebooted, read the stuff fine, but now Woody is
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