Subject: Re: getting a DMA expansion drive going for PB backup
From: perry phillips (pm_perry@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Jun 27 2001 - 13:08:27 MDT
Hi All,
Christopher was correct: the DMA drive is "hde". Unfortunately,
cfdisk replies with "bad signature on partition table." However it
looks like fdisk is willing to wipe out my current Mac OS partition
and the unallocated half. I have, it seems, three hex options 82 =
linux swap; 83 = linux; and 85 = linux extended. Perhaps I missed a
key option? I read that ext2 is 83, but then what is 85? Ideally,
it would be nice to set up a swap partition, a Mac HFS+ partition, a
transfer partition, and ext2. Is that possible?
Thanks for any advice,
perry phillips
>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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