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C1000/3x00 General discussions / C3100 Hdd Recovery

« on: November 10, 2005, 04:43:30 pm »

It's done finally. My C3100 boot up fine for now. However, I've encountered another problem regarding the HD.......

When I try to access hdd2 by using Tree!Explorer. It takes a very long time to read the disk. I ended up put my ear to the keypad and hear some strange noise from the HD, something like "tick tick tick". Sounds like the HD is having a hard time to seek for data. I'm afraid the microdrive is about to die. Any suggestion please?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / C3100 Hdd Recovery

« on: November 10, 2005, 02:39:42 pm »

I thought it works but in fact it doesn't. I tried to cp files in DB mode but the changes didn't take effect after reboot. ......

I'm still unable to copy necessary content files to hdd1 due to read-only file system problem. Even remount do not work. Did I miss something? Please help!

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / C3100 Hdd Recovery

« on: November 10, 2005, 02:03:55 pm »

You have to make the disk rw by doing

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Hi GadgetGuy,

Thanks for your help. I tried to remount but it still not working.
By typing ls i saw the folders within /dev/hdd1 are:

"Applications" "Documents" "Settings" instead of lost+found

Is this normal?
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Finally i'm able to cp files to .sys folder in hdd1. However, "HDD is not initialized" message still exist while booting up........

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / C3100 Hdd Recovery

« on: November 10, 2005, 01:16:39 pm »

You have to make the disk rw by doing

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mount  -o  remount,rw /dev/hdd1[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=103158\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]
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Hi GadgetGuy,

Thanks for your help. I tried to remount but it still not working.
By typing ls i saw the folders within /dev/hdd1 are:

"Applications" "Documents" "Settings" instead of lost+found

Is this normal?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / C3100 Hdd Recovery

« on: November 10, 2005, 12:39:47 pm »

Hi everybody,

i have to correct my yesterdays posting. The sentence "should
boot even with a fresh formatted HDD" points to the FAT partition
with the "Documents" and dictionary directories.

But there are three partitions on the SL-C3100 HDD. So if the HDD
is totally blank without any partitions, the SL-C3100 won't boot up.
And this is how a SL-C3100 HDD partition table should look like:

/dev/hda1  Start 1  End 20  Blocks 10048+  id 83 System Linux
/dev/hda2  Start 21 End 40  Blocks 10080  id 83 System Linux
/dev/hda3  Start 41 End 7936 Blocks 3979584 id c System Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

/hda1 and /hda2 are 9.5 MB partitions. Each one contains a ".sys" and
a "lost+found" directory. The contents of the .sys-directories are
amazing   :

Files in /hdd1/.sys :
hdimage2.tgz  (2713 Bytes, contains japanese web-bookmarks - hurray !)
hdlist1.dat (85 Bytes, no clue what it's good for)

Files in /hdd2/.sys :
contlist.dat (100156 Bytes)
hdlist2.dat (1427 Bytes)
hdlist3.dat (1519 Bytes)

We just put these files zipped in our download-section:
SL-C3100 SystemPartition contents (90 KB)

///TRIsoft

Marc Stephan
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Marc,
Many thanks for this advice! The Phoenix rises!
Repartitoned the MD  with fdisk then # mke2fs -j /dev/hda1,# mke2fs -j /dev/hda2,# mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/hda3. Mount the disks #mount /dev/hda1 /hdd1 etc and copy the files from your download to the relevant disks. Reboot, install and run mcconvert,Reboot and there you go!
Not sure if everyone will need to do the mcconvert. But I had done a reset and a NAND restore.

Thanks again!
Paul
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Hi Paul,
After formatting those drives I'm not able to copy HD content files to hda1 and 2. First I tried su then create .sys folder in /hdd1 by using the terminal,  but system returned "Cannot create directory '.sys': Read-only files system. After that I used Tree!Explorer but the problem still remain. Could you please help me out? Thanks!