Re: FireWire external drive and SCSI /dev/sdxx limit
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:39:39PM +0100, Stefano Barale wrote:
> Hello list,
> I just bought a "brand new used" iBook2 ;). Unfortunately its wonderful
> 30GB IBM HDD is slowly dying (I/O errors, can't recover journal from time
> to time) so I had to remove it and put the original 10GB back on the
> machine.
> The problem is I forgot to migrate some data from the 30GB to the 10GB. "No
> problem" - I tought - "I'm going to use an external firewire case, mount
> the disk as /dev/sda and backup the missing data".
> That's the point where my problem comes in: apparently there's a limit on
> the number of scsi devices (from 1 to 15, to be precise) so I end up being
> unable to mount /dev/sda16 (was /dev/hda16, mounted as /tmp, doesn't
> matter) and /dev/sda17 (my old /dev/hda17, mounted as /home and _that
> matters_).
> Do you have any idea for a workaround? Thanks in advance.
> Stefano
>
> P.S.: mac-fdisk "sees" /dev/sda16 and /dev/sda17 perfectly and I have no
> problems mounting /dev/hda12, /dev/hda14 and /dev/hda15 (/dev/hda13 was
> swap)
I'm not sure; but how about using the r command in mac-fdisk to swap
some partitions around so the important ones are 15 and under?
Or are some of the partitions useless Apple_Driver partitions?
You could delete them.
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