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Hi Steve

Once again thanks.

hdc is a 512 MB microdrive, which I'm trying to access through a PCMCIA
adaptor (on a Toshiba Libretto 100CT, with 32  MB RAM)

The figures that appear in my last posting are correct.. viz.

Disk /dev/hdc: 538 MB, 538804224 bytes
32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes

In your previous response, you asked if the vfat module was installed. I
hadn't/haven't installed it so I guess that this module doesn't come with
the BL3-50 distro and that I should download it from Slackware 4.0 (IE,
http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware-4.0/modules/2.2.6/fs/)
and install it using the pkg command. After that  I presume that you install
the vfat module into the kernel manually by using the command below?

insmod vfat.o

I will also back-up all the data on the microdrive and re-format it as you
suggest in your posting.

A couple of other points:

*I've managed to access the microdrive on the Libretto under FreeDOS using a
DOS enabler.
*I also tried the access the card through three live CDs (this time running
on a different laptop, an IBM ThinkPad 600e) -- Damn Small Linux or DSL
(kernel 2.4), Puppy Linux (kernel 2.6) and Knoppix (kernel 2.6). Using DSL
there were no error messages and I could access the microdrive and the files
it contains immediately. However, both Puppy and Knoppix generated and error
message 'hdc : lost interrupt'. It's the first time I've seen this. What
does it mean?

In any event I'm most keen on Basiclinux, which is a great distro and
absolutely perfect for my highly portable Libretto! I just need to be able
to access the microdrive.

All the best

Simon


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To: <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [BL] PCMCIA support -- BL3-50


> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Simon wrote:
> >
> > hdc: hdc1
> > hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplere Error}
> > hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError}
>
> This error probably occurs because the drive
> is taking time coming up to speed and is not
> immediately readable.
>
> > Disk /dev/hdc: 538 MB, 538804224 bytes
> > 32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes
>
> Are those figures correct for your drive?
> Is it a CDrom drive or standard harddrive?
>
> > Device      Boot   Start   End   Blocks  ID   System
> > dev/hdc1     *      1      522   525640+  6   FAT16
> > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> >    phys=(521, 31, 63)  logical=(521, 15, 63)
>
> It doesn't like the way the disk was formatted.
> Are we able to reformat the disk or do you want
> to keep the data on it?
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
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