[Xbox-linux-user] Re: hdtool failed with seg fault

[Iain W. W. <bi...@pa...>]

Hi David,

Thanks for the quick response, 3:45 in morning in New Zealand and the 
answer was......

Two problems,

1) Syntax

- -d /dev/hdd is wrong

Should be with the -d
hdtool -e eeprom -o LOCK /dev/hdd

2) Wrong kernel
The instructions do say 2.6.7. I used fc3 recompiled with taskfile. I 
believe it is higher 2.6.8. I tried 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-rc2 and non 
worked. However after download 2.6.7 it did.

Iain


Use the correct kernel it appears. I u
David Pye wrote:
> On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:16, Iain William Wiseman wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>After reading
>>
>>http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ReplacementDrive
>>
>>I thought I was on solid ground and bought a new 80 gig drive.
>>
>>However after running hdtool -e eeprom -d /dev/hdd -o LOCK
> 
> 
> -e eeprom and -d /dev/hdd ?
> 
> I'm not sure how that would work, unless I'm misunderstanding what I wrote 
> those options to do.
> 
> -e eeprom means obtain the password from the eeprom.
> 
> /dev/hdd is the device to lock. But, only the xbox has an eeprom, and it has 
> only a single IDE channel, so only hda and hdb would make sense.
> 
> 
>>I now find I have a drive that no longer works at all.
> 
> 
> I suspect if you ran dmesg, you would see the kernel oops'ed, which is what 
> led to the segfault..   If you weren't locking your boot device, go back and 
> look at /var/log/messages and see if the oops is there.  If so, and it's a 
> recent 2.6 version kernel, you can report a bug to the kernel folks.  
> 
> Beyond that, I suspect there is not much you can do to recover the drive.
> 
> Might be worth contacting the helpful company you purchased it from and 
> explain that it no longer works and try to return it. I wouldn't suggest 
> mentioning what you did to it.
> 
> David
> 
>>Any help gratefully accepted.
>>
>>Iain
>>
>>
>>
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