On Saturday 23 December 2006 13:30, Primm wrote:
On Saturday 23 December 2006 21:40, Mike Noble wrote:
On Saturday 23 December 2006 10:25, Primm wrote:
On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:41, Mike Noble wrote:
On Saturday 23 December 2006 09:27, Primm wrote:
On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:04, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 16:42 +0100, Primm wrote: > I have a zaapa usb external drive. I thought I could simply > plug it in and write to it. It does not show up under the kde > 'my computer' as I expected it would. Running evmsgui it shows > as /dev/evms/sda but I've no idea how to write to it. Why > doesn't it simply show as /dev/sda? How can I get to use it?
Open a console as root and type:
# fdisk -l
Does it only show /dev/sda or is there a /dev/sda1 too? If there is only /dev/sda it means that there are no partitions on the disc. You can use fdisk to create a partition, then format ti with the filesystem of your choice.
Hans
it gives me this:
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 383 3076416 12 Compaq diagnostics /dev/hda2 * 384 6258 47190937+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 6259 12161 47415847+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 6259 8228 15823993+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 8229 8356 1028128+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda7 8357 12161 30563631 83 Linux
Disk /dev/dm-0: 3150 MB, 3150249984 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 382 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/dm-0p1 ? 120513 235786 925929529+ 68 Unknown Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(116, 100, 32) logical=(120512, 47, 32) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(288, 101, 46) logical=(235785, 20, 46) Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-0p2 ? 82801 116350 269488144 79 Unknown Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(82800, 34, 51) Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(0, 13, 10) logical=(116349, 218, 61) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-0p3 ? 33551 120595 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(345, 32, 19) logical=(33550, 137, 11) Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(324, 77, 19) logical=(120594, 153, 54) Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-0p4 ? 86812 86813 10668+ 49 Unknown Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(87, 1, 0) logical=(86811, 142, 3) Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(335, 78, 2) logical=(86812, 225, 45) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/dm-1: 48.3 GB, 48323520000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5875 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
This doesn't look like a partition table Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/dm-1p1 ? 116388 126889 84344761 69 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-1p2 ? 105915 222310 934940732+ 73 Unknown Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-1p3 ? 1 1 0 74 Unknown Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/dm-1p4 179626 179629 26207+ 0 Empty Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Any ideas? Thanks Steve.
Format the drive.
Mike
Sorry but how do I do that? I've tried fdisk but don't know what device to name it. What is the commant to format this drive? Cheers, Steve
You will want to fdisk the drive and setup the partition table the way you want. Probably one large partition.
fdisk /dev/dm
You then can run fdisk -l and find out what the partition is called. In my example I will use /dev/dm0.
Then you want to put a file system onto the disk, I will use ext2 in my example.
mke2fs /dev/dm0
Mike
Hi There is no /dev/dm:
fdisk /dev/dm
Unable to open /dev/dm
So can't get any further. Steve.
Did you try /dev/dm-0 and /dev/dm-1? Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org