[Udpcast] Problem with Hitachi hard disk in 20091230 and posible before

[Gunner Poulsen]

From: "Gunner Poulsen" <gp at lyngbjerggaardskolen.dk>
To: Bert Van Vreckem <bert.vanvreckem at gmail.com>
Sent: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:10:03 +0100
Subject: Re: [Udpcast] Problem with Hitachi hard disk in 20091230 and posible
before

I tested that i could mount the hard disc in a Ubuntu live CD. I can, but I
don't have the courage to make a new cd.
I think it uses the libata module, but it doesn't work.

Gunner

On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:50:59 +0100, Bert Van Vreckem wrote
> Dear Gunner,
> 
> I had exactly the same problem with 42 shiny new Dell boxes that 
> spent their first months as very expensive paper weights...
> 
> In the end, I took a Linux kernel from a standard Fedora 
> installation and put it into a Udpcast CD boot image using the image 
> creator [http://udpcast.linux.lu/mkimagedoc.html]. To know which (S)
> ATA drivers you need exactly, boot Linux from a live cd and do an 
> lsmod in a terminal. In my case, it was pata_ahci and ata_generic 
> (IIRC). The busybox shell is no longer functioning on my new boot 
> cd&#39;s, but at least I can clone again...
> 
> Held og lykke. Let me know how it went and whether I can be of 
> further assistance...
> 
> bert
> 
> 2010/1/14 Gunner Poulsen <gp at lyngbjerggaardskolen.dk>
> Dear friends
> I use UDP-cast in my work as administrator on a school. It has worked
> brilliant for years :-)
> Now we have got 35 new labtops that I have to clone. But UDP-Cast 
> can&#39;t find the harddisk :-( The hard discs are: ATA Hitachi hts542525k9sa00
> UDP-cast just comes up with OTHER as harddisk partions to clone.
> Can anyone help?
> I beleve it is a fault in the driver.
> 
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