philosophical Ubuntu (was: formatting external harddisk

[Philippe Landau]

the funniest part of this dmesg is how it closes:
"Current sda: sense key No Sense"

saw that too late :-)

kind regards     philippe

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Philippe Landau wrote:
> Gavin Hemphill wrote:
> 
>>    There's a slight gotcha when you are using disks formated on a ppc 
>> system with an X86 based system.  
> 
> ah. thank you for your feedback, Gavin.
> 
>> I do it all the time but the problem is that fdisk on the ppc knows 
>> about Mac partition tables and fdisk on the x86 does not.  The kernel 
>> distributed by ubuntu knows about Mac partition tables though and if 
>> you look in the dmesg log  or messages log you'll find a listing of 
>> the partitions it finds on the disk.  The best thing to do is to note 
>> the partition number(s) that you have formated for ext3 or whatever 
>> and use them when you mount on the X86 box.  For example I have a big 
>> paper label on the drive I move between Mac's and X86 listing the 
>> partition 3 as HFS+ and partition 4 as ext3.  I also use an e2label on 
>> the ext3 partition and mount it by label just to make it even easier.
> 
> ah, so back to the command line interface
> where i swim like a frog in the sky ...
> 
> dmesg says:
> 
> usb 3-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> usb-storage: device found at 3
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>   Vendor: SAMSUNG   Model: SP2014N           Rev: VC10
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> SCSI device sda: 390721969 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sda: 390721969 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, 
> filesystem will b e case sensitive!
> program gparted is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to 
> SG_IO
> 
> is there anything i need to do to be able
> to read from and write to this fat32 partition ?
> 
> kind regards     philippe