[ltp] T41p Hotswap Ultrabay - Ubuntu Dapper

[Jim Duchek]

nteresting, though.  This was with a removable HD?   I'm thinking
there's something that's got to be done on insert of a removable HD
that I'm not doing... that apparently doesn't need to be done on a
T2x...

Jim


On 05/05/06, David A. Desrosiers <desrod@gnu-designs.com> wrote:
>
> > Lorenco: Let me know if you have success.  Working with a guy right
> > now having problems with that same setup (hardware-wise, don't know
> > what distro he's running) and I can't reproduce.
>
>         WARNING WARNING WARNING...
>
>         I just tried this on my T42p, and it appeared to work great.
> The drive was cleanly removed, ejected, and was re-detected upon
> reinsert of the Ultrabay.
>
>         Here's where the problem started...
>
>         No more partition table. DOH! Nothing I had could recognize
> the drive's partition, because the primary _and_ backup partition
> table entries on the drive were gone (set to flag 0x0000).
>
>         Luckily I remembered the exact partitioning scheme I used on
> the drive, so I was able to recreate it with fdisk and get my data off
> before any more weirdness happened to it. I would hate to have lost 2
> weeks of data sitting on 80gb of drive since my last backup interval.
>
>         Just be careful, and back up first, before you play with it.
>
>
> David A. Desrosiers
> desrod@gnu-designs.com
> http://gnu-designs.com
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