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Approx 25% of HDD capacity missing? (370GB from 500GB drive)
Hi,
We have done some investigation. And the problem is most certainly located in the Linux kernel or our IDE driver. This means that to solve this issue one will have to update the kernel image.
We will continue to investigate this until we locate the problem. But if you, hooper35, have the posibility return your harddrive and exchange it that will most likely be easier than wait for the kernel fix and upgrade that.
/Tor
We have done some investigation. And the problem is most certainly located in the Linux kernel or our IDE driver. This means that to solve this issue one will have to update the kernel image.
We will continue to investigate this until we locate the problem. But if you, hooper35, have the posibility return your harddrive and exchange it that will most likely be easier than wait for the kernel fix and upgrade that.
/Tor
Co-founder OpenProducts and Ex Excito Developer
Ordered a new (Seagate) HDD last night, fingers crossed it'll arrive tomorrow or Saturday. Can't wait, really want to get it up and running 
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Do you reckon there is anyway of knowing what hard drives will or won't work with the current OS. i.e. is it something to do with the specification of the hard drive?
It might be worth thinking about creating a sticky thread with all known hard drives that work.
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.Do you reckon there is anyway of knowing what hard drives will or won't work with the current OS. i.e. is it something to do with the specification of the hard drive?
It might be worth thinking about creating a sticky thread with all known hard drives that work.
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Nope, I can't see that it could be dangerous in any way.
Regarding other disks, we have only verified a few, Seagate Barracuda, Samsung Spinpoint and Hitachi Deskstar. However, we can't make any promises that all types of these brands will work correctly.
We currently assemble Seagate Barracuda (mainly due to their low noise and high reliability), and we know for sure that recent models of 80, 320, 500 and 750 GB sizes work as expected.
We'll get back once we find out more.
Regarding other disks, we have only verified a few, Seagate Barracuda, Samsung Spinpoint and Hitachi Deskstar. However, we can't make any promises that all types of these brands will work correctly.
We currently assemble Seagate Barracuda (mainly due to their low noise and high reliability), and we know for sure that recent models of 80, 320, 500 and 750 GB sizes work as expected.
We'll get back once we find out more.
/Johannes (Excito co-founder a long time ago, but now I'm just Johannes)
I had a thought about this.
Yesterday I was having difficulty getting files to download from Filemanager. I kept on getting an error (blank doc etc). I then did a bubba "Update Software" and found I had 6 pacakges that needed updating. Once this had worked successfully, I found I could download documents correctly.
The thought was... Could your current image be a bit behind where it should be? Is there a fix for your IDE driver or other packages that might not be completely up to date in that image (but which is updated when using the "Update Software" button). Might you be testing partitioning with a completely up to date environment rather than with the image I used?
Yesterday I was having difficulty getting files to download from Filemanager. I kept on getting an error (blank doc etc). I then did a bubba "Update Software" and found I had 6 pacakges that needed updating. Once this had worked successfully, I found I could download documents correctly.
The thought was... Could your current image be a bit behind where it should be? Is there a fix for your IDE driver or other packages that might not be completely up to date in that image (but which is updated when using the "Update Software" button). Might you be testing partitioning with a completely up to date environment rather than with the image I used?
Hi hooper35,
The updates that you do in the web-admin interface are updates to the system that you are normally running.
When doing an install and partitioning the system, Bubba uses the same kernel, but does not start debian, it is running a custom system built on busybox.
So when the partitioning is made the version of our firmware does not matter.
/PA
The updates that you do in the web-admin interface are updates to the system that you are normally running.
When doing an install and partitioning the system, Bubba uses the same kernel, but does not start debian, it is running a custom system built on busybox.
So when the partitioning is made the version of our firmware does not matter.
/PA
