[ltp] Thinkpad 770Z with 14.1 GB Drive.

Wed, 17 Nov 1999 14:52:38 +1000

G'day Tipsters,

Having just joined this list, I was hoping that somebody could help me with
accessing the 14.1 GB drive on the Thinkpad 770Z's. I did see a
hda=1826,240,63 setting on www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp770x.html, but
unfortunately that doesnt work for me.

My Problem:

I have my 14.1 gb disk partitioned into several partitions. (I created the
partitions under NT)
Whenever I do fdisk -l /dev/hda, I get *nothing* returned. fdisk on its own
says it can't open /dev/hda.

I have no problem mounting any of my partitions, and I've worked out that
if I want to create or delete any partitions, I have to duck into NT, do
the job then duck back to linux. Yuck :-(

Anyone got any tips?

BTW, the output of sfdisk -l produces this (notice the cannot read sector
error and that it only shows that I have 6 partitions):

read: Success

Disk /dev/hda: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 1826 cylinders

sfdisk: read error on /dev/hda - cannot read sector 16495920
Units = cylinders of 7741440 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start     End   #cyls   #blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *      0+    276     277-  2094088+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2        277     683     407   3076920   83  Linux
/dev/hda3        684     954     271   2048760   83  Linux
/dev/hda4        955    1825     871   6584760    5  Extended
/dev/hda5        955+   1022      68-   514048+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda6       1023+   1090      68-   514048+   6  FAT16

The output of cat /proc/partitions (?) showed correctly that I have 8
partitions:

major minor  #blocks  name
3     0    7740967 hda
3     1    2094088 hda1
3     2    3076920 hda2
3     3    2048760 hda3
3     4          1 hda4
3     5     514048 hda5
3     6     514048 hda6
3     7    3069328 hda7
3     8    2487208 hda8
22     0 1073741823 hdc

Also, I have installed Redhat v6 (kernel 2.2.5) and recently compiled and
installed 2.2.10 with no luck.

Thanks...

...deon
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