OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Storage
Using a 1 TB USB hard drive
Neil Waldhauer:
--- Quote from: Jan-Erik Lärka on January 30, 2014, 10:53:37 am ---I use a 2TB USB hard drive (Seagate Backup Plus) to store data on... but not to boot from.
I used DFSee to adjust the size of the existing NTFS partition and created a JFS volume with the appropriate settings.
//Jan-Erik
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OK, apparently I don't know how to "adjust" the size of the NTFS partition. I remade the NTFS partition using Windows 7, and now eCS can't use it at all. JFS sounds like a good idea. This is a new Toshiba 1 TB drive that is half the physical size of a normal portable drive.
I don't intend to boot this drive. I have little use for a bootable USB drive at this time.
Please give details of what needs to happen to the NTFS partition so eCS will recognize it.
Thanks!
Ian B Manners:
Hi Neil,
--- Quote ---I'm looking at using a 1 TB USB portable hard drive. But eCS sees it as a 500 GB drive. What do I need to do to see the full 1 TB?
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On the assumption you have the latest drivers.
BASEDEV=OS2DASD.DMD /D:0 /BOOTABLE /D:1 /FULLSIZE
/D:0 = first disk, D:1 = second disk - boot then format HD's
/FULLSIZE ONLY use on a new disk onwards for 500Gb or bigger
You might have to use FDISK or JFSEE to clear the first few sectors on the harddisk.
I started with clean new HD's, I simply put them in the ext USB cases, connect then,
power up, LVM, new volume etc, format as JFS, then simply use it. (grammar correction)
I use 1 and 2TB HD's in external USB cases to backup my local drives and the server drives.
Pete:
Hi Neil
To adjust the size of a Windows volume use the Windows Volume Manager to extend or reduce size - Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management if I remember correctly.
To get a 1Tb drive working with eCS requires the use of DFSee - http://www.dfsee.com - and either a blank 1Tb drive or a 1Tb drive that has had all wanted files copied elsewhere.
These are the steps I took to get my 1Tb USB drive working; I posted the below to the os2-uk user group:-
"Of course LVM saw this as a Big Floppy of 512Gb when attached so it needed a bit of a "fiddle" to get it working with eCS. Just in case anyone else needs to get a 1Tb USB drive working with eCS(OS/2):-
1] Use DFSee to wipe the boot sector completely
2] Eject the USB drive
3] Reattach USB drive
4] Run LVM which now "sees" the size of the drive but still thinks of it as a Big Floppy
4] Delete the Big Floppy partition
5] Create a new Volume on the USB drive - I also changed the USB drive letter to S
6] Exit LVM saving changes
7] Format the new drive - I selected JFS as I will not be using the drive with other operating systems (although I understand *nix can read/write OS/2 JFS, possibly with a bit of fiddling on the *nix side)
Eh, Voila! 1 1Tb USB drive working fine. "
You will need to (re)create your NTFS volume as well as creating the eCS volume(s).
Regards
Pete
ivan:
Neil, is there any reason that you need NTFS on that drive? If not then just use DFSee to blank the drive and then create a JFS partition.
I have several 2TB drives that I fitted into SATA/USB drive holders that I formatted as JFS and use to make image backups of our servers - no problems at all with WSeB seeing the full capacity or writing to the drives.
Neil Waldhauer:
Pete's instructions didn't work. DFSee still sees the drive as a 500 GB. Ian's instructions did work.
The OS2DASD.DMD /D:0 /BOOTABLE /D:1 /FULLSIZE allowed DFSee to change the geometry. Even after changing, DFSee had the wrong volume size. So I ejected and reinserted the drive. Now DFSee had the right size. I created a partition.
I then went to LVM, and deleted the partition, which was a big floppy as Pete had noted.
I created a single primary and saved. Then I formatted JFS. I ejected the drive (but that failed -- after saying it was safe to eject, it said I had not ejected. I then did a chkdsk and the drive appears to be OK.
I then moved the drive to another eCS system that does not have the OS2DASD.DMD line that provides for the fullsize, and it recognized the whole drive.
Thanks everyone, and I hope you can see how to combine Pete's, Ian's and my posts into instructions on how to format a 1 TB portable hard drive.
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