Amazing tricks you can do with your IDE interface

[bill at horne.net (Bill Horne)]

dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:49:00PM -0500, Bill Horne wrote:
>  
>
>>which shows /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdc5. I understand /dev/hdc5, (assuming 
>>jazz drives have the same format as Zip disks), but /dev/hdc1 has me 
>>_very_ confused.
>>    
>>
>
>
>[snip]
>
>>However, I _AM_ able to mount _BOTH_ /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdc5, and I
>>can transfer data from /dev/hdc1 to the new, shrink-wrapped jazz disk
>>mounted as /dev/hdc5. Moreover, the client recognizes the data I'm 
>>able to move!
>>    
>>
>
>This I don't understand. /dev/hdc1 ought to be on that Jaz disk
>as well.
>
>-dsr-
>
>  
>
That't the mystery! My client (not the machine, but the human who hired 
me) verified the directory and file names I copied from /dev/hdc1 to 
/dev/hdc5, and confirmed that they were originally on the hard drive! 
Yet, the hard drive is _definitely_ wired to the Primary Master IDE 
port, and I get (as expected) disk seek/read errors when I try to mount 
/devhda[1-4].

The Jazz disk was shrink-wrapped: there is no way the client's data 
could have gotton on to it before the Maxtor drive failed, no matter 
what partition.

Thanks for your input.

Bill

-- 
E. William Horne
William Warren Consulting
http://william_warren.home.comcast.net
781 784-7287