[mythtv-users] Gotchas replacing FC6 disk with new one?

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sat Dec 8 18:13:40 UTC 2007


Craig Huff writes:

> Ok...
> 
> Things aren't going so well.  I can't seem to get any traction with the new
> disk drive.  This is my first SATA drive; the one I'm currently running on is
> an IDE drive.
> 
> I have tried qtparted, gparted, parted, and fdisk to no avail.  I cannot get
> a partition defined on the new drive, much less get it formatted for use.
> 
> I am running on an ASUS A8N-SLI mobo which has four (4) SATA II ports
> courtesy of the nvidia southbridge and another four (4) SATA (*not* SATA II)
> ports supported by a Silicon Image RAID controller.
> 
> Since I wanted to use the best performance, I took out the jumper block on
> the drive that limited it to SATA I speed.  I have connected it to the first
> nvidia SATA II port and rebooted the system.  Checking /dev, afterwards,
> /dev/sda has been added.  When I tried parted interactively, here's what I got:
> 
> [root at penguin ~]# parted /dev/sda
> GNU Parted 1.8.2
> Using /dev/sda
> Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
> (parted) mkpartfs primary ext2 0 500107
> Error: Unable to open /dev/sda - unrecognised disk label.
> (parted) mklabel bsd
> Error: Input/output error during write on /dev/sda
> Retry/Ignore/Cancel? c
> (parted) q
> 
> Now what do I do?

Look in /var/log/messages to confirm that the kernel sees the new drive.

Use fdisk to create a new partition table on the new drive. You may need to 
wipe it first:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

Watch the device name. One typo and you'll nuke your current drive's 
partition table.

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