On Thursday 15 June 2006 06:37, Donald Greg McGahan wrote: > I have a 100Gb Seagate 2.5 inch hard drive that currently has a ntfs > partition, and extended partition with a fat32 partition within it. I > wanted to repartition it to a single fat32 partition. I removed it from > it's (third party) external enclosure and installed it as an secondary > IDE slave (adapter) in my AMD K7 (1.33MHz) Ubuntu OS box. > I cannot seem to accomplish this task?!? > I've tired deleting all of the partitions and then writing but no joy. > I've been fussing with this on and off for a few days and thought I get > some help. > Here is what I'm doing. > I pop open a terminal window and > > fdisk /dev/hdd (i've tried both with sudo and sudo su) > > then > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hdd: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdd1 1 10027 80541846 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hdd2 10028 12161 17141355 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hdd5 10028 12161 17141323+ b W95 FAT32 > > Command (m for help): d > Partition number (1-5): 5 > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hdd: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdd1 1 10027 80541846 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hdd2 10028 12161 17141355 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > > Command (m for help): w > The partition table has been altered! > > Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. > Syncing disks. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/hdd > > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 12161. > There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, > and could in certain setups cause problems with: > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs > (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/hdd: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdd1 1 10027 80541846 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hdd2 10028 12161 17141355 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > /dev/hdd5 10028 12161 17141323+ b W95 FAT32 > > Command (m for help): > > >
This is strange. I just tried using fdisk and parted on this drive, and neither were able to alter the existing partition table. Checking kern.log revealed some odd errors: usb 5-1: reset high speed USB device using address 28 scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 22 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 SCSI error : <22 0 0 0> return code = 0x50000 end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 3168 Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 396 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb scsi22 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 397 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 398 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 399 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 400 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 401 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 402 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 403 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 404 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 405 lost page write due to I/O error on sdb scsi22 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device ... looks like the disk is bad? anyone else have any ideas? Cheers, -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech