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Everything Else => Zaurus Distro Support and Discussion => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => Sharp ROMs => Topic started by: Jon_J on January 21, 2006, 07:43:51 pm
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I have an old 4.3GB hard drive that I took from one of my other computers, and am using it as a USB drive with an enclosure. The Files tab in Qtopia sees it as this:
Storage /dev/sda1
It's formatted as Fat32 (My winXP machine won't let me select Fat)
When I use the Backup/Restore app, it doesn't show up in the drive choices.
The drive choices show the following:
Internal Disk
SD Card
CF Card
How can I "Make" Backup/Restore find this drive? I'ts plugged into the USB host, and external power supply. (Light on drive is ON).
I have a C3100 Zaurus with Cacko 1.23
BTW, I already searched for this and didn't find any threads on this particular problem.
Thank you,
Jon
Update: I just tried to copy a small file from my internal drive to this external drive, but got an error: "Cant copy" [filename]
The small file was a file I just put into my internal drive today, it's not a system file.
This drive works in windows, I just formatted it yesterday.
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I just tried dmesg to see what is going on with this external drive. (I'm new at linux, and am learning commands).
The output is shown below:
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Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Maxtor 8 Model: 4320D4 Rev: 0811
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 8439184 512-byte hdwr sectors (4321 MB)
sda: sda1
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option owner
EXT2-fs: Unrecognized mount option owner
cramfs: wrong magic
VFS: Can't find a Minix or Minix V2 filesystem on device 08:01.
MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8
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I was amazed that it recognized the drive manufacturer.
I'm a bit confused though, does any of the information explain why this drive won't show up as a backup location in "Backup/Restore" on the Qtopia desktop?
Thank you,
Jon
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Maybe your drive is not being automatically mounted. You need to create a directory to mount in on, say "drive" by issuing the command
mkdir drive
Then become root (i.e. type su) and issue the command
mount /dev/sda1 /home/zaurus/drive
(assuming the paths are correct) and now you should be able to copy files to and
from "drive". If this works then you can edit /etc/fstab (but read about it first to learn how) and it will happen automatically.
Felipe
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It will never show up as a backup location. don't waste your time trying because sharp has hardcoded the backuprestore application to only look for the internal microdrive, external cf and sd.
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jfv, I'm not sure if that worked. (maybe the drive is already mounted).
I did exactly as you said, except I used "hard_drive" for the name.
Now I have 2 external drives showing in the "files" tab
"Storage /dev/sda1"
"Storage /dev/sda1"
Whenever I connect/disconnect the host USB cable, the Qtopia desktop notifies me.
"Now updating information"
OK, I just disconnected the hard drive, and reconnected it. The desktop gave me the above notification and, I only have one instance of:
"Storage /dev/sda1" in the file tab.
Meanie, if you cannot access an external USB drive in the Backup/Restore Application, How do you do an entire backup? I would like to backup all my newly installed softs and settings.
Thank you both for coming to my assistance,
Jon
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This might help answer some of your questions
http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/custom.html#backup (http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/custom.html#backup)
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Thank you meanie. I should have looked there first.
I know your site has already been made into a PDF file, but I prefer reading it in htm or html format on my Palm or my Zaurus (I have more choices of software that wraps text, and font selections/sizes).
Here's what I did, since Firefox, (on my PC), wants to re-download images every so often. Firefox seems to lose the connection to the images if it crashes.
I opened your 3 major sized pages, made sure all images were downloaded, then saved them for offline reading. I have a 56k dialup.
Thanks again,
Jon