On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:39:39PM +0100, Stefano Barale wrote: > Hello list, > I just bought a "brand new used" iBook2 ;). Unfortunately its wonderful > 30GB IBM HDD is slowly dying (I/O errors, can't recover journal from time > to time) so I had to remove it and put the original 10GB back on the > machine. > The problem is I forgot to migrate some data from the 30GB to the 10GB. "No > problem" - I tought - "I'm going to use an external firewire case, mount > the disk as /dev/sda and backup the missing data". > That's the point where my problem comes in: apparently there's a limit on > the number of scsi devices (from 1 to 15, to be precise) so I end up being > unable to mount /dev/sda16 (was /dev/hda16, mounted as /tmp, doesn't > matter) and /dev/sda17 (my old /dev/hda17, mounted as /home and _that > matters_). > Do you have any idea for a workaround? Thanks in advance. > Stefano > > P.S.: mac-fdisk "sees" /dev/sda16 and /dev/sda17 perfectly and I have no > problems mounting /dev/hda12, /dev/hda14 and /dev/hda15 (/dev/hda13 was > swap)
I'm not sure; but how about using the r command in mac-fdisk to swap some partitions around so the important ones are 15 and under? Or are some of the partitions useless Apple_Driver partitions? You could delete them. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
