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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org