Problem partitioning with qtparted

[Newbie-100]

I installed V3.9-2005-5-27 and it installed OK and looks cool. Firefox even works!

I then started qtparted from the command line. It started OK, but the only disk it found was

/UNIONFS/dev/hdd.

How do I make it find my hard disks so I can partition them? I was expecting it to say that it
had found /dev/hda1, etc. but it didn't. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

[UnderScore]

Step 1) What is your PC's storage devices?
Mine is:
hda = 160GB IDE HD
hdb = 80GB IDE HD
hdc = DVDROM drive
hdd = CDRW drive
Either you might know it off the top of your head or you can run commands and get the output.

dmesg | grep -i hd
dmesg | grep -i ide

Step 2) You mentioned you installed Knoppix. Usually that phrase indicates that it was installed to a hardrive. Which hard drive & partition did you install to?

[Newbie-100]

I have two generic IDE disks (200 GB each). Each has NTFS partitions, no FAT.

I used the wrong word. I didn't 'install' Knoppix. I booted it and it came up correctly.
Then in a command window, I typed qtparted and it started ok but didn't list any hard disks. The
only device it showed was /UNIONFS/dev/hdd

How do I make qtparted even find the hard disks? Until I partition them, I can't install
Knoppix or anything else. Why doesn't it find the disks automatically?

Thanks

[UnderScore]

dmesg
dmesg | grep -i hd
dmesg | grep -i ide

Those commands will spit out info onthe devices that Knoppix has found. Somewhere in the output should be info about your IDE controller and the drives. You need to know if it is finding them before you can get qtparted to work.

[Newbie-100]

I did the following (I hope I copied this all correctly)

# dmesg | grep -i hd
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD2000JB-00DUA0, ATA DISK drive
hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: PHILIPS DVDRW228, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3
hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
hdb: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63
hdb: cache flushes supported
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb3
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
hdd: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
SCSI device sda: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB)
SCSI device sda: 781422768 512-byte hdwr sectors (400088 MB)
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hdb.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdb.
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
hdd: media error (bad sector): status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: media error (bad sector): error=0x30 { LastFailedSense=0x03 }
end_request: I/O error, dev hdd, sector 1310080
Buffer I/O error on device hdd, logical block 327520

Then I did
# dmesg | grep -i ide
CPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
ide: failed opcode was: unknown

Finally I did
# df /dev/hda1
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/UNIONFS 2779904 1973276 806628 71% /UNIONFS.

I am not sure what this means though.

I started qtparted again and got the message: Warning unable to open /UNIONFS/dev/hdd read-write

[Parcye]

I have the same problem, have you got it fixed? Ifso, how did you fix it?