Amazing tricks you can do with your IDE interface
Bill Horne
bill at horne.net
Wed Mar 30 09:09:30 EST 2005
dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:49:00PM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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!
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>This I don't understand. /dev/hdc1 ought to be on that Jaz disk
>as well.
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>-dsr-
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That't the mystery! My client (not the machine, but the human who hired
me) verified the directory and file names I copied from /dev/hdc1 to
/dev/hdc5, and confirmed that they were originally on the hard drive!
Yet, the hard drive is _definitely_ wired to the Primary Master IDE
port, and I get (as expected) disk seek/read errors when I try to mount
/devhda[1-4].
The Jazz disk was shrink-wrapped: there is no way the client's data
could have gotton on to it before the Maxtor drive failed, no matter
what partition.
Thanks for your input.
Bill
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E. William Horne
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