[ale] G4L disk access problem: Dell E6410

[George Allen]

The newer dells have ATA mode, and two others, one standard, and one which
is a custom intel raid mode. I would start by checking the controller mode
in bios.
On Jul 15, 2011 9:02 PM, "Dow Hurst" <dphurst at uncg.edu> wrote:
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> The latest G4L, Ghost for Linux, refuses to access the hard drive on a
Dell
> E6410 laptop. The error message is "hdparm: ioctl 0x304 failed:
> inappropriate ioctl for device", then "hdparm: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY:
> inappropriate ioctl for device".
>
> The user selected the latest stable kernel from the g4l boot menu,
selected
> option 1 which is g4l, then selected raw mode, and then click and clone.
> When she selected the target /dev/sda was when the error message came
back.
> I double checked with her that she had selected the bx38.4 2.6.38.4 april
21
> 2011 kernel. Somehow I think I'm missing something simple here that
> pertains to the Dell controller or drive. I dimly remember running into
> some problem with the disk controller a year ago when first installing
> Ubuntu over the Vista Home that had to do with the controller and solid
> state disk support. There is a regular 500Gb SATA drive in the laptop that
> the bios is warning on boot has "imminent disk failure" problems. We are
> running Dell Diagnostics on the drive now. I'm just stumped by the G4L
> error message. Her fdisk output that she sent me also looks like this:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0005496a
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 13 96256 83 Linux
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda2 13 60802 488288257 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 13 1958 15624192 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6 1958 4389 19529728 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 4389 60802 453132288 83 Linux
>
> I would appreciate any advice on how to get g4l to read /dev/sda.
>
> Best wishes,
> Dow
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