[ltp] Thinkpad 770Z with 14.1 GB Drive.

[Chris Black]

If you formatted them as NTFS partitions in NT fdisk won't see them. :-(



dgeorge@au1.ibm.com wrote:

> 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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