Disks

CLI Mode

Entering Disk mode

From the CLI, you can enter the PCI mode by the following command

hdt> disks
Error 0x1h while reading disk 0xE0:
	invalid function in AH or invalid parameter
disk>

When entering the first time in the disk mode, HDT will try to detect hard disks. It might display errors if the ATA devices is a cdrom.

Listing disks

The show command display a summary of all detected disks.

disk> show
DISK 0x80:
  C/H/S: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
  EDD:   Version: 30, size: 149 GiB
         Host bus: ISA, Interface type: ATA

Note: from the main menu, this listing is available by using the show disk command.

hdt> show disk
DISK 0x80:
  C/H/S: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
  EDD:   Version: 30, size: 149 GiB
         Host bus: ISA, Interface type: ATA

hdt>

Displaying more details

For every detected disk, the show disk <x> will display more details like the partitions.

disk> show disk 0x80
DISK 0x80:
  C/H/S: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
  EDD:   Version: 30
         Size: 149 GiB, 512 bytes/sector, 63 sectors/track
         Host bus: ISA, Interface type: ATA

   #  B       Start         End    Size Id Type
   1           4096    20975616  10 GiB 27 Unknown
   2  x    20975616    90284032  33 GiB 07 OS/2 IFS (e.g., HPFS)
   3       90284576   312583856 106 GiB 05 DOS 3.3+ Extended Partition
   5       90282591    96778080   3 GiB 82 Linux swap
   6       96778080   138116160  19 GiB 05 DOS 3.3+ Extended Partition
  13       96778143   138116160  19 GiB 83 Linux native (usually ext2fs)
  14      144611712   176332464  15 GiB 05 DOS 3.3+ Extended Partition
disk>

Menu mode

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Detection of Linux swsusp in the swap partition.

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Detection of MS bootloader in the first partition.

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Detection of Grub in the MBR of the 3rd disk.