What program did you use for formatting? What options does it have? I'd just follow our guide<http://wiki.elphel.com/index.php?title=HDD_Format>for formatting the HDD from the camera.
Yes, you can have several partitions. Best regards, Oleg On 20 March 2012 11:47, Carlos Padial <[email protected]> wrote: > yes, this seems to be said in fdisk > > | /dev/hda1 1 60802 488386583+ ee EFI GPT > > but i dont know about this. What kind of partition is expected to work? > some guidance will be helpful. > > best regards. > > 2012/3/20 Alexandre Poltorak <[email protected]> > >> Hi Carlos, >> >> It may be that you have partitioned it as GPT partitions. >> >> Best regards, >> Alexander >> ------------------------------ >> >> *De: *"Carlos Padial" <[email protected]> >> *À: *"Oleg" <[email protected]> >> *Envoyé: *Mardi 20 Mars 2012 15:40:39 >> *Objet: *[Elphel-support] external hdd >> >> >> hi oleg >> >> now i have removed again the internal hdd and want to try the external >> sata. >> >> i have an external hdd with two partitions: >> dev/sdc1 344gb ext4 >> dev/sdc2 121gb ext2 >> >> i want to use the second one, i formatted it not to big (120gb, as the >> internal). I formatted the ext2 in my computer, not in camera... >> >> i get this in the boot log: >> ---------------------------- >> >> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 >> >> ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with >> idebus=xx >> >> ide: ETRAX FS built-in ATA DMA controller >> >> cris_ide_init() >> >> hda: ST3500630AS, ATA DISK drive >> >> ide0 at 0x10000000-0x10000007,0x2c000000 on irq 65 >> >> hda: max request size: 128KiB >> >> hda: 976773168 sectors (500107 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=60801/255/63, >> (U)DMA >> >> hda: cache flushes supported >> >> hda: hda1 >> >> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... >> ------------------------------ >> >> and in the camera from telnet: >> >> [root@Elphel353 /]829# fdisk -l >> >> Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders >> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes >> >> Device Boot Start End 1K-Blocks Id System >> /dev/hda1 1 60802 488386583+ ee EFI GPT >> [root@Elphel353 /]829# cat /proc/partitions >> major minor #blocks name >> >> 3 0 488386584 hda >> 3 1 488386583 hda1 >> 31 0 131072 mtdblock0 >> 31 1 256 mtdblock1 >> 31 2 7936 mtdblock2 >> 31 3 24576 mtdblock3 >> 31 4 81920 mtdblock4 >> 31 5 12288 mtdblock5 >> >> ------------------------------ >> in camogmgui i see the partition detected but cant mount it. >> >> dont know if it is detecting the right partition. It's right to use an >> hdd with more than one partition? >> >> thanks again. >> >> -- >> Carlos Padial >> surreal.asturnazari.es >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Support-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://support.elphel.com/mailman/listinfo/support-list_support.elphel.com >> >> >> > > > -- > Carlos Padial > surreal.asturnazari.es > > _______________________________________________ > Support-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://support.elphel.com/mailman/listinfo/support-list_support.elphel.com > >
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