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jbk wrote: > Bill Horne wrote: > >> OK, this is one for the record books. If you can explain it, please >> call me. >> Scenario: a client with a fried Maxtor disk, which is identifying as >> "N40P" during boot - a sure sign of system area failure. The BIOS >> says it's on the IDE Primary Master. >> >> The BIOS also identifies a WDC<mumble> on the Secondary Master - a >> Jazz drive which is undamaged. >> >> Now, the mystery: >> >> I boot Knoppix from CD, and the system auto-constructs the fstab >> file, which shows /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdc5. I understand /dev/hdc5, >> (assuming jazz drives have the same format as Zip disks), but >> /dev/hdc1 has me _very_ confused. >> >> I try to mount /dev/hda[1-4], and each errors out on seek and/or read >> errors. Sure enough, the Maxtor is fried. >> However, I _AM_ able to mount _BOTH_ /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdc5, and I >> can transfer data from /dev/hdc1 to the new, shrink-wrapped jazz disk >> mounted as /dev/hdc5. Moreover, the client recognizes the data I'm >> able to move! >> >> So, the question is: what/where is /dev/hdc1? There's only one hard >> drive in the machine, and I've verified that it's connected as the >> Primary Master IDE device. >> >> All opinions welcome, on or off list. TIA. >> >> Bill Horne >> 781 784-7287 >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss at blu.org >> http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > That might be a characteristic of knoppix. The bitdefender liveCD is > based on knoppix. When I booted my laptop with it, it assigned the > hard disk to hdc. After several reboots it assigned the disk to hda. > Can a jazz drive have more than one partition? I am not familiar with > them. Can you run du or df to get a disk size read? > Jim > It would have to be a quirk of Knoppix, although I'm still puzzled by the way it recognized that there was _something_ on /dev/hda, even though it refused to mount it because it couldn't find a partition table, had read/seek errors, etc. However, I got some data off it _somehow_, since the homeowner verified the directory names I retrieved, and something like "Kathy's Journal" wouldn't be on a Jazz disk by default, even though the shrink-wrapped ones do come with promotional offers and trialware. I can't repeat the excercise: the client was happy to get her daughter's journal back, and the rest will have to go down in the book of the unexplained. A Pentium 1, running Windows 95 OSR 0, and I advised her to call Dell and cut her losses. Thanks for your help. Bill -- E. William Horne William Warren Consulting http://william_warren.home.comcast.net 781 784-7287
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