Problems backing up a T60

[Hobby]

I've been trying to backup my Sat T60 with Dual Drives running Ver. 2.0 all afternoon.

When using the Kazymyr Boot Disk I have ran into three problems.

(1) My A Hard Drive (30 Gig) is rarely recognized after booting with Kazymyr.

(2) When I finally do get my A Drive recognized and I proceed to type "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos" (Ater typing "mkdir /mnt/dos") - a message is returned basically saying that I have entered a bad command.

(3) If I disregard the message saying that it didn't like the command mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos and proceed with the backup using command "mfstool backup -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc /dev/hdb" the backup fails shortly into the run.

Both drives are properly mounted in my computer to hdb (Drive B) and hdc (Drive A). Any help with these problems would be greatly appreciated.

[RaysMD]

Concept of backing up is as follows.


You do not need to mount your Tivo's drive. You do need to mount the destination drive.

i.e., If you want to use mfstools to back up your Tivo's drive and it's is connected as hdb and your destination drive is connected as hda, then do the following

mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/dos

The (-t vfat) tell Linux that it's a FAT32 drive.

Then proceed with your backup command.
mfstool backup -6so /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdb

[Hobby]

Thanks:

I tried "mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos" and "mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/dos", both gave me a response of

"Wrong fs type, bas option, bad super block on dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems"

I ran cfdisk and my dos is in fact hda1 & fat32

I really need some suggestions

Thanks

[barrygordon]

I too am having a similar problem
Primary master is dos drive partitioned into 2 drives (C and D)
Secondary master is Tivo drive from DSR 6000R
I am running linux from a CD

I did

mkdir /mnt/dos
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

followed by

mfstool backup -o /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc

I assume the name hda1 means the first partition on hda and hda may be used if it is the first partition you want, i.e. hda defaults to hda1, Some one please confirm?

What I get when I enter the mfstool command is that /mnt/dos/tivo.bak is read only

Is the problem that it is trying to make the backup into /mnt/dos on the CD and that is read only? Does that mean I have to run mfstool from a floppy ?

[Hobby]

barrygordon

I am certainly no expert here but I think if you make sure byte swapping is enabled (before you hit enter the 1st time during boot up) that this will fix your problem. - Let me know.

But as for me - I've tried everything and nothing is working - I'm still unable to mount /dev/hda1 to /mnt/dos.

I'm in real need for assistance.

Thanks

[barrygordon]

That does not sound right. Byte swapping is enabled by the boot cd on all drive positions (hdb, hdc,hdd) except hda. this is because you want byteswapping off for the DOS disk if you are mounting one, and hda (primary master) is where you normally will find the DOS/WIN disk

[RaysMD]

ok, let's try to make this simpler. You should have only a 3 drives. Your CDROM, windows hard drive, and the tivo hard drive.

Make sure they are connected as follows:

hda = Primary master (windows hard drive)
hdb = Primary slave (CDROM)
hdc = Tivo hard drive

If everything is connected as follows then insert your bootcd and log onto linux.

mkdir /mnt/dos
mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/dos [this mounts your windows drive)
mfstool backup -o /mnt/dos/tivo.bak /dev/hdc [to copy the tivo drive)


This will only work on FAT32 drives, make sure you're not running Windows NT, 2000, or XP off a NTFS partition.

Rays

[barrygordon]

The last part tells me the problem. I am running windows 2000 and the primary partition (1) is NTFS. The second partition is Fat32. Should I be able to mount the second partition? or should I redo the primary drive partition from NTFS to fat32

[BubbleLamp]

Originally posted by barrygordon
The last part tells me the problem. I am running windows 2000 and the primary partition (1) is NTFS. The second partition is Fat32. Should I be able to mount the second partition? or should I redo the primary drive partition from NTFS to fat32

I can't remember if they start counting partitions at zero or one. Try using the mount command with hda2.

[RaysMD]

It's hda1 to mount the second partition. I'm running WindowsXp and my 2nd partition is FAT32 primary partition. Translation: In windows most partitions are an "extended partition" of the first. So you might not be able to mount the 2nd partition unless you were in Windows.

However, with windows 2000 and XP, it's relatively easy to make the 2nd partition a "non-extended" partition. Meaning that any operating system can use it and mount it.

First try to mount the 2nd partition using Linux
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1

If it doesn't work, then just change the partition type. You must log on as Administrator and reformat the 2nd paritition as a "primary" FAT32 drive, using the Disk Management tools available to you under Computer Management menu. This allows you to have the security features of NTFS and at the same time have an second partition for storage as FAT32.

Good luck, hope it's not too confusing.

[barrygordon]

That was it. Thanks. For some reason it did not like the NTFS partition. I rebuilt it as FAT32 with Win2K and the backup worked as advertised

[Hobby]

I'm really against a wall here - here are my parameters

hda = Primary master (windows hard drive)
hdb = 15 Gig TiVo "B" Drive
hdc = 30 Gig TiVo "A" Drive
hdd = Secondary Slave (CDROM -RW)

I Type (After booting with the Kazymyr disk)

mkdir /mnt/dos
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

and get the following

Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted systems

NOTE: IF I USE "/dev/hda" in place of "/dev/hda1" I am still unable to mount

I have a Windows 95 FAT32 drive.
My hard drive has 1.52 gig free space

Thanks

[RUBiK]

Hobby »

Are you positive that there is only one partition on that Windows HD (i.e. /dev/hda)?

And that it is a Primary partition (as opposed to an extended partition within the primary partition, etc.) for sure? (if it isn't the first PRIMARY partition, it's not /dev/hda1)

What does the bootup log say (where it lists the disk drives & partitions it detected)?

EDIT: Hrmm.. My bad.. I apologize.. I hadn't carefully read your post above (where you said that you had confirmed that it IS /dev/hda1)... *scratches head*