RE: [coLinux-devel] Problems with \Device\HarddiskVolumeX

[Sean B. <sea...@so...>]

> I included a MSFT link in an earlier post.  That page tries 
> to explain 
> SCSI and IDE drive numbering for W2K.
Cheers, I will have a look.

> I haven't been able to access raw partitions in coLinux as 
> \Device\HarddiskVolumeX or as \Device\HarddiskX\PartitionY.
> I'd love to fully grok the naming scheme to see if I'm
> doing something bogus in my XML config file.  I don't think
> I am.
ok, didnt realise.

What do you mean by you cannot access the raw partitions in
colinux? What type of partitions exactly? For me at least
I need to specify the partition type with -t inside colinx
eg mount -t ext3 /dev/cobd? ... whereas in native linux it
is recognised automatically. If you are wanting to mount
one of your windows drives then are you sure you have
support for the partition types in your kernel or compiled
as a module? If you cannot boot from a native partion then
there does seem to be an issue there (I have this problem)
though I can boot ie it does in fact recognise the partition.

Some thoughts:
- I am guessing you are using w2k. A cursory search suggests that
there were issues with diskperf and volume names. Are you using
the latest service pack?
- I think I sussed the \Device\HarddiskVolume? convention. It
also seems quite simple. Looking at logical disk manager
literally count the partitions starting from 1 from the first 
disk left to right and down through the second etc to the partition
you want. All partitions should be included in the count. Do a
search though the registry for harddiskvolume and on winxp at
least it shows references to where the windows system is
installed to give you an example. So maybe give that a go and 
add it.

Cheers.