> What program did you use for formatting? What options does it have? >
i used gparted. I never managed about GPT or other partition tables googling for info i can only find about GUID, Apple partition map, BSD disklabel... what should be our disk partition type? if i had to do the format only from the camera, i must wait to have a new hdd > 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 >> >> > -- Carlos Padial surreal.asturnazari.es
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