Hello everyone,
I have one harddisk which is primary one. I boot from floppy. I tried to
issue the fdisk command but it gave me error “unable to access”. can
anybody tell me that what’s the exact syntax of fdisk command? I am not
sure if I am giving the right command.
Reply me ASAP!
Thanks
Shumail
shumail@colormail.com
Previously, Shumail wrote in qdn.public.qnx2:
Hello everyone,
I have one harddisk which is primary one. I boot from floppy. I tried to
issue the fdisk command but it gave me error “unable to access”. can
anybody tell me that what’s the exact syntax of fdisk command? I am not
sure if I am giving the right command.
Before you use fdisk, you will need to mount a disk driver, eg.
$ mount disk 3 disk.ata
If the disk mounts properly, you can check to see if this runs?
$ dcheck 3
If dcheck appears to be working, then
$ fdisk 3
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com
I issued the commands that you told me. It showed me the fdisk menu with many
options which is kinda confusing. I am writing the screen input:
Ignore Next Previous Change Del Mount Boot Unboot
Save Quit
OS Name Type start cylinder end cylinder
Number(Cylinder) Number(Blocks) Boot
--------- ----
dos (1) 23145
23155 11 207
3. ---- (165) 33952
63137 29186 -1273494525 *
4. ---- (243) 906
44457 43552 -13371853 *
user up and down …
type c to …
type …
qnx is OS type 7,8 or 9 and dos is os type 1 or 4. Unused is os type 0
First Cylinder is 0, Last Cylinder is 79
Disk is 737,280 bytes H=2 T=80 N=0
I have QNX installed on this hard disk but I am confused with this. I think
the mbr is corrupted. Can you please guide me?
Reply me ASAP!
Thanks
Shumail
shumail@colormail.com
Mitchell Schoenbrun wrote:
Previously, Shumail wrote in qdn.public.qnx2:
Hello everyone,I have one harddisk which is primary one. I boot from floppy. I tried to
issue the fdisk command but it gave me error “unable to access”. can
anybody tell me that what’s the exact syntax of fdisk command? I am not
sure if I am giving the right command.Before you use fdisk, you will need to mount a disk driver, eg.
$ mount disk 3 disk.ata
If the disk mounts properly, you can check to see if this runs?
$ dcheck 3
If dcheck appears to be working, then
$ fdisk 3
should.
–
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- > maschoen@pobox.com
Hi,
When I first issue the command:
mount disk 3 disk.ata
it says:
disk.ata : unable to match file
when I issue the command:
fdisk 1 then it show the statistics that I posted before and when I issue the
command fdisk 2 or fdisk 3 and fdisk 4 it doesnt’ work at all.
What are the possible reasons? if disk.ata doesn’t match then there’s any
alterante name?
Thanks
Shumail
shumail@colormail.com
Mitchell Schoenbrun wrote:
Previously, Shumail wrote in qdn.public.qnx2:
Hello everyone,I have one harddisk which is primary one. I boot from floppy. I tried to
issue the fdisk command but it gave me error “unable to access”. can
anybody tell me that what’s the exact syntax of fdisk command? I am not
sure if I am giving the right command.Before you use fdisk, you will need to mount a disk driver, eg.
$ mount disk 3 disk.ata
If the disk mounts properly, you can check to see if this runs?
$ dcheck 3
If dcheck appears to be working, then
$ fdisk 3
should.
–
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- > maschoen@pobox.com
Hi Mitchell,
I guess that disk.ata is missing so I checked under /drivers and it showed me
the following files start with disk:
disk.ahascsi
disk.at
disk.atc
disk.bios
disk.ps2
disk.ps2esdi
disk.ps2scsi
disk.ram
disk.xt
which file I should choose?
Thanks
Shumail
shumail@colormail.com
Mitchell Schoenbrun wrote:
Previously, Shumail wrote in qdn.public.qnx2:
Hello everyone,I have one harddisk which is primary one. I boot from floppy. I tried to
issue the fdisk command but it gave me error “unable to access”. can
anybody tell me that what’s the exact syntax of fdisk command? I am not
sure if I am giving the right command.Before you use fdisk, you will need to mount a disk driver, eg.
$ mount disk 3 disk.ata
If the disk mounts properly, you can check to see if this runs?
$ dcheck 3
If dcheck appears to be working, then
$ fdisk 3
should.
–
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- > maschoen@pobox.com
disk.atc is the correct driver for a non-lba mode hdisk connected on a machine
that has lba disabled for ide.
you will need to ensure that the cmos on that machine has the correct
heads/tracks/sectors as described on your harddisk itself.
disk.ata is a newer driver that was donated by the community for use with
lba drives, but it is not shipped on the qnx floppy.
Shumail <shumail@colormail.com> wrote:
Hi,
When I first issue the command:
mount disk 3 disk.ata
it says:
disk.ata : unable to match filewhen I issue the command:
fdisk 1 then it show the statistics that I posted before and when I issue the
command fdisk 2 or fdisk 3 and fdisk 4 it doesnt’ work at all.What are the possible reasons? if disk.ata doesn’t match then there’s any
alterante name?Thanks
Shumail
shumail@colormail.com
Mitchell Schoenbrun wrote:Previously, Shumail wrote in qdn.public.qnx2:
Hello everyone,I have one harddisk which is primary one. I boot from floppy. I tried to
issue the fdisk command but it gave me error “unable to access”. can
anybody tell me that what’s the exact syntax of fdisk command? I am not
sure if I am giving the right command.Before you use fdisk, you will need to mount a disk driver, eg.
$ mount disk 3 disk.ata
If the disk mounts properly, you can check to see if this runs?
$ dcheck 3
If dcheck appears to be working, then
$ fdisk 3
should.
–
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- > maschoen@pobox.com
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