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Mar 02 03:00:05 <mwester> Ok.  A lot of the new ones use something called "U3", which makes the device look like a combo CDROM/FLASH disk.  That causes very similar symptoms and problems.
Mar 02 03:00:36 <manekineko> this one isn't labeled on the packaging as a U3 drive so it shouldn't be
Mar 02 03:01:07 <manekineko> is it possible to use fdisk from telnet to manually set it up ext3?
Mar 02 03:02:01 <mwester> No, the Linksys fdisk utility is modified and won't work except from the GUI.
Mar 02 03:02:37 <mwester> You could do that from another linux system (or from the NSLU2 if it was already unslung to an external device, and you could install a real fdisk utility)
Mar 02 03:03:27 <mwester> Of course, just formatting it as ext3 is not sufficient for Linksys' firmware to recognize it.  The wiki has details on some of the prereqs (a linksys "native" format is not just ext3...)
Mar 02 03:03:57 <manekineko> yeah I saw that
Mar 02 03:04:03 <mwester> Go ahead and format it as FAT again, then lets plug it back into the NSLU2.  Let's see what "fdisk -l /dev/sda" has to say about it...
Mar 02 03:05:05 <manekineko> okay pasting it in
Mar 02 03:05:05 <manekineko> Disk /dev/sda: 17 heads, 59 sectors, 1019 cylinders
Mar 02 03:05:05 <manekineko> Units = cylinders of 1003 * 512 bytes
Mar 02 03:05:05 <manekineko>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
Mar 02 03:05:05 <manekineko> /dev/sda1   ?    775809   1913904 570754815+  72  Unknown
Mar 02 03:05:05 <manekineko> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
Mar 02 03:05:41 <manekineko> irc channel didn't like that much
Mar 02 03:06:01 <mwester> Ooops... last line I got was "Partition 1 has different..."
Mar 02 03:06:18 <manekineko> I'll repaste everything
Mar 02 03:06:21 <manekineko> split up this time and slower
Mar 02 03:06:23 <manekineko> Disk /dev/sda: 17 heads, 59 sectors, 1019 cylinders
Mar 02 03:06:23 <manekineko> Units = cylinders of 1003 * 512 bytes
Mar 02 03:06:23 <manekineko>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
Mar 02 03:06:23 <manekineko> /dev/sda1   ?    775809   1913904 570754815+  72  Unknown
Mar 02 03:06:23 <manekineko> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
Mar 02 03:06:24 <manekineko>      phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(775808, 8, 13)
Mar 02 03:06:26 <manekineko> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
Mar 02 03:06:28 <manekineko>      phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(1913903, 14, 4)
Mar 02 03:06:30 <manekineko> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
Mar 02 03:06:32 <manekineko>      phys=(357, 32, 45) should be (357, 16, 59)
Mar 02 03:06:34 <manekineko> /dev/sda2   ?    168185   2098423 968014120   65  Novell Netware 386
Mar 02 03:06:36 <manekineko> Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
Mar 02 03:06:38 <manekineko>      phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(168184, 16, 27)
Mar 02 03:06:40 <manekineko> Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
Mar 02 03:06:42 <manekineko>      phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(2098422, 8, 24)
Mar 02 03:06:44 <manekineko> Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
Mar 02 03:06:46 <manekineko>      phys=(367, 114, 50) should be (367, 16, 59)
Mar 02 03:06:48 <manekineko> /dev/sda3   ?   1864289   3794527 968014096   79  Unknown
Mar 02 03:06:50 <manekineko> Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
Mar 02 03:06:52 <manekineko>      phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(1864288, 10, 12)
Mar 02 03:06:54 <manekineko> Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
Mar 02 03:06:56 <manekineko>      phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(3794526, 1, 20)
Mar 02 03:06:58 <manekineko> Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
Mar 02 03:07:00 <manekineko>      phys=(357, 32, 43) should be (357, 16, 59)
Mar 02 03:07:02 <manekineko> /dev/sda4   ?         1   3626348 1818613248    d  Unknown
Mar 02 03:07:04 <manekineko> Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
Mar 02 03:07:06 <manekineko>      phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(0, 0, 1)
Mar 02 03:07:08 <manekineko> Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
Mar 02 03:07:12 <manekineko>      phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(3626347, 7, 42)
Mar 02 03:07:12 <manekineko> Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary:
Mar 02 03:07:14 <manekineko>      phys=(0, 10, 0) should be (0, 16, 59)
Mar 02 03:07:17 <manekineko> Partition table entries are not in disk order
Mar 02 03:07:18 <manekineko> that's everything
Mar 02 03:07:42 <mwester> Well, it seems that Linux is convinced that device has four partitions.
Mar 02 03:09:16 <mwester> That'
Mar 02 03:09:34 <mwester> s going to have to go to one partition before it can be formatted by the Linksys tool, I'm afraid.
Mar 02 03:09:56 <mwester> The Linksys fdisk utility can't clear the partition table (that's either a bug or a feature, we're not sure)
Mar 02 03:10:24 <manekineko> that's weird, unless it came this way, because it seems like the linksys utility is what made it this way in the first place
Mar 02 03:11:13 <mwester> That doesn't look like something the Linksys utility would do - it would set three partitions, and they would be 256/128/128 MB in size (in that order)
Mar 02 03:11:58 <manekineko> is this typical of what U3 drives look like?
Mar 02 03:13:05 <mwester> I only have one; it doesn't look like mine.  It might be similar technology.  Or it might just be that the kernel can't read the device data.
Mar 02 03:13:18 <mwester> Can you chekc the /var/log/messages log again for any new errors?
Mar 02 03:13:38 <manekineko> are you looking for errors from running the fdisk?
Mar 02 03:14:16 <mwester> BTW, you can try to google/search for "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, Version 2.0.6" or similar; that's a utility I use to reset flash devices to remove all partitioning info and such.
Mar 02 03:14:43 <mwester> I'm looking for I/O errors reported from the time it was plugged in.
Mar 02 03:15:34 <manekineko> I had pulled it again to try some utilities on my pc on it
Mar 02 03:15:44 <manekineko> but after reinserting it and running the fdisk list again
Mar 02 03:15:52 <manekineko> nothing seems to have come out in the log
Mar 02 03:16:15 <mwester> Ok.  Then we have to assume that the funky partition table is what's on the device.
Mar 02 03:16:59 <mwester> Do you have another Linux system?
Mar 02 03:17:04 <manekineko> unfortunately no
Mar 02 03:17:27 <mwester> Can you boot up Knoppix or another CD-based distribution, then?
Mar 02 03:18:54 <manekineko> yeah I suppose I could download and burn it
Mar 02 03:20:29 <mwester> Or the other alternative is to try to find the utility or similar one that I mentioned -- the goal is to return the device to a single partition device so that the Linksys utility can do something with it.
Mar 02 03:20:53 <manekineko> ok the HP utility worked actually
Mar 02 03:20:59 <manekineko> fdisk is looking much happier now
Mar 02 03:21:08 <manekineko> only one partition
Mar 02 03:21:14 <manekineko> should I try and use the webinterface to format it?
Mar 02 03:21:25 <mwester> Sure, let's go for it.
Mar 02 03:24:33 <manekineko> nice it worked this time
Mar 02 03:25:34 <manekineko> thanks for your help
Mar 02 03:25:44 <manekineko> I'm going to try to continue with the instructions in the readme and unsling to it
Mar 02 03:25:49 <mwester> np - glad its working!
Mar 02 03:25:57 <manekineko> yup really appreciate it
Mar 02 03:37:56 <manekineko> are you still there?
Mar 02 03:42:46 <manekineko> is it possible to hot swap now using unslung?
Mar 02 03:46:47 <mwester> sorta still here...
Mar 02 03:47:15 <manekineko> with unslung does hot swapping work now?
Mar 02 03:47:35 <mwester> No, hot swap is not supported by the Linksys firmware, and it really isnt' by unslung either.  you can usually, but not always, add the non-root device.  you cannot usually unplug same.
Mar 02 03:47:54 <manekineko> how about customizing shares for ntfs volumes?
Mar 02 03:48:06 <mwester> Well, you can unplug it -- nothing is stopping you -- but I mean that it will usually mess up the system.
Mar 02 03:48:13 <mwester> What do you mean about the ntfs volumes?
Mar 02 03:48:14 <manekineko> I did it by editing /etc/samba/user_smb.conf
Mar 02 03:48:20 <manekineko> but that seemed to revert on reboot or something
Mar 02 03:48:25 <mwester> (other than don't use ntfs, it'll hang your device)
Mar 02 03:48:27 <manekineko> but I hadn't unslung yet at that point when I tried
Mar 02 03:48:53 <manekineko> I mean can you set samba shares other than the whole drive for ntfs volumes
Mar 02 03:48:56 <manekineko> and have it actually stick?
Mar 02 03:49:30 <mwester> You need to do that yourself, and since you can't make it stick, you need ot use a diversion script to set the custom settings at each boot.
Mar 02 03:57:50 <jason0_> Anyone here rtorrent?
Mar 02 04:04:49 <jason0_> I'm running rtorrent on nslu2, when I press the arrow keys it seems to be mapping it to the wrong key and it changes the view instead of letting me select a torrent.
Mar 02 04:05:42 <jason0_> Is this a terminal emulation problem?
Mar 02 04:08:37 <manekineko> I'm getting a lot of 404 errors with ipkg installs, and I have already run ipkg update
Mar 02 04:08:38 <manekineko> is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?
Mar 02 04:09:05 <manekineko> I've tried now openssh and samba, and both of them die on 404 errors on downloading openssl
Mar 02 04:11:42 <eno> jason0_: rtorrent is known not working on unslung, but works on slugosbe
Mar 02 04:12:17 <eno> manekineko: i've seen feed downloading problem recently as well
Mar 02 04:12:28 <manekineko> ya I just got it working actually
Mar 02 04:12:35 <manekineko> by following the tip on the wiki
Mar 02 04:12:40 <manekineko> and just trying again for like the 15th time
Mar 02 04:12:58 <jason0_> eno: I'm running from debian etch
Mar 02 04:14:15 <eno> i found manually wget the ipk file often works
Mar 02 04:15:06 <jason0_> eno: just found my problem, turns out to be abug with dtach
Mar 02 13:43:51 <Golfgeo> Hi all
Mar 02 13:45:00 <Golfgeo> Got a question on Denian: Why is the 2.6.17-2-ixp4xx installed with a new rc1 install that uses 2.6.18-3-ixp4xx to boot the system?
Mar 02 13:45:59 <Golfgeo> *Denian = Debian
Mar 02 13:51:54 <Golfgeo> Sorry got it wrong, with the standerd install the old kernel modules arn't removed...
Mar 02 13:52:17 <Golfgeo> pretty wierd...
Mar 02 16:11:25 <murdersnow> Hey guys. Anyone use kplaylist on their slug?
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