[HLUG] Hard disk problems?

[Graham Cole]

Thanks David,
I'm going to have to leave this for a week but there are some odd
features here. I seem to have access and can now open the old HD: it's
at /dev/hdc but hdc5 churns out a stream of rubbish because the contents
are not decoded. With Nautilus opened by root I can see the disc listed
in /dev and if I look at properties of a partition I am told there are
no bytes. I can click on hdc5 and a menu gives the option to create
a .tar.gz archive which sounds like a great idea. But it doesn't work.

Next week I'll try again.
Many thanks
Graham


On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 00:14 +0100, David Shorthouse wrote:
> This might help I hope
> 
> IDE0
> cable with 2 ports
> hda1  | (normally Master boot)
> hda2  | Each of the numbers represents a partition so this drive has 3
> hda3  |
> hdb1  | slave Drive if there are more partitions it will work the same as 
> above.
> 
> 
> IDE1
> Cable has 2 ports
> hdc1  | say CD rom drive
> hdd1  | Say DVD drive
> 
> If you put your old harddisk on IDE0 as a slave
> 
> you will need to mount the drive as Julian suggested
> 
> mount -t auto /dev/hdb1 /mnt/backmeup1
> if you have more than one partition on the drive makesure you do the same per 
> partition
> 
> hope this helps make sure when you setup the slave the cable is correct as 
> well as the jumpers....
> 
> Dave
> 
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