Subject: Re: getting a DMA expansion drive going for PB backup
From: Black (cpa@ece.cmu.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 26 2001 - 21:25:25 MDT
I am running YDL in an expansion bay HD on my Wallstreet powerbook. I was
able to put my drive in the left side, so I could do a CD install,
however, I installed CS 1.2.1 from the hard drive the way you are talking
about. If my install is anything to go by, your expansion bay HD isn't at
ide*. My drive is actually hde*. I have an hfs partition on that disk that
is /dev/hde7 (plus the other special Apple partitions 1-6). My linux
partion is installed on hde8-11.
Good Luck,
Christopher
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, perry phillips wrote:
> However, the more programs I get running, the more concerned I am
> with stability and backup.
>
> My primary concern in this message is in asking for suggestions about
> how to backup my internal HD on a swappable DMA expansion bay drive
> on a G3 PB pismo. This shouldn't be that difficult (er, impossible),
> but it is a problem which has stumped me. I've used "devalias" in OF
> to try to determine the device name and my best guess is ide0 or
> ide1, but neither seem mountable. Keep in mind that when the DMA
> drive is in the expansion bay, the CD-ROM is not--so a YDL CD install
> is not possible. Nevertheless, the drive was partitioned
> successfully using Mac OS and an external cdrw drive (but that
> doesn't work for YDL CD) and half of it is "unallocated" in
> preparation for fdisk. Unfortunately, I am stuck at this point.
> Maybe I've made a bad assumption about the name of the drive? How
> could I check for a device name if it is not mounted from the Linux
> side? It seems that it is a bit tricky to mount a drive that isn't
> yet readable from the Linux side?
>
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