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Title: 5gb Help
Post by: coolass on October 16, 2005, 05:04:58 am

I have a Seagate 5gb st1 microdrive for my SL-6K and when I type fdisk /dev/hda   It returns "unable to read /dev/hda". I want to use the drive but I can't mount it. I'm also logged into the terminal as root. THANKS....

Title: 5gb Help
Post by: Tom61 on October 16, 2005, 03:37:23 pm

Is this an OEM or retail packed drive? If it's an OEM or a drive you ripped out of another device, the firmware may not support being used in a PDA.

Title: 5gb Help
Post by: coolass on October 17, 2005, 07:14:48 am

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Is this an OEM or retail packed drive? If it's an OEM or a drive you ripped out of another device, the firmware may not support being used in a PDA.
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OEM,,, but I thought someone had it working???

Title: 5gb Help
Post by: jomo on October 17, 2005, 03:49:18 pm

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Is this an OEM or retail packed drive? If it's an OEM or a drive you ripped out of another device, the firmware may not support being used in a PDA.
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OEM,,, but I thought someone had it working???
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No-one from THIS board has managed to make it work.  

Title: 5gb Help
Post by: arepih on December 30, 2005, 09:55:53 am

I've been using the Seagate St1 5gb with my C860 (cacko 1.22 rom) for a few months and it works fine.
SN : 3ME03XVV
P/N : 9AF212-001
Model : ST650211CF
Date : 05102

Title: 5gb Help
Post by: bluedevils on December 30, 2005, 10:55:10 am

arepih, was this an OEM drive or retail?

Title: 5gb Help
Post by: anunakin on December 30, 2005, 12:40:42 pm

1- remove you cf card....
2- $dmesg -c
3- put you card
4- wait 10 segs
5- dmesg


Put dmesg result here...

Title: 5gb Help
Post by: arepih on December 30, 2005, 10:25:28 pm

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1- remove you cf card....
2- $dmesg -c
3- put you card
4- wait 10 segs
5- dmesg


Put dmesg result here...

OK..here the result  

EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option quiet
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 hda: hda1
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 hda: hda1
cramfs: wrong magic
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 hda: hda1
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 hda: hda1
VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device 03:01.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 hda: hda1
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 hda: hda1
MSDOS FS: 10 charset utf8


I bought this card from auction. I think it was taken from Muvo MP3 player

Title: 5gb Help
Post by: DrWowe on December 30, 2005, 10:40:17 pm

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I bought this card from auction. I think it was taken from Muvo MP3 player
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That makes sense.  The older Muvos had drives that could work in CF mode.  It was because of the mass-auctioning of microdrives that Hitachi later crippled the firmware.

Bottom line, you can't know for certain just based on the microdrive model.  It depends on the firmware.  You take a risk buying OEM.

Title: 5gb Help
Post by: speculatrix on January 01, 2006, 01:16:51 pm

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EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option quiet
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
 hda: hda1
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)

it looks like you might just need to fdisk it then format it...

fdisk /dev/hda

create a primary partition, set it to type fat32

then format it with newfs.

HTH
Paul

Title: 5gb Help
Post by: anunakin on January 06, 2006, 06:03:52 am

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VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
hda: hda1
MSDOS FS: 10 charset utf8

For me this problem is thi "ide0(3,1)", it is /dev/hdc not /dev/hda

What is your Z model?

Title: 5gb Help
Post by: arepih on January 06, 2006, 11:56:01 pm

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VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,1)
hda: hda1
MSDOS FS: 10 charset utf8

For me this problem is thi "ide0(3,1)", it is /dev/hdc not /dev/hda

What is your Z model?
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SL-C860