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durain is offline durain
2010-11-04 , 17:20
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Hi. I just received my N900 back from repairservice. The problem was that it only showed the Nokia introscreen and rebooted repeatedly. That's now fixed but now that I got my phone back I can't seem to access or even find my hard drive from the phone's files-browser or when connected to PC. Files-browser in N900 only tells me that I have total of 455,8mb memory/space.

Now what I'm thinking is that my hard drive is either broken or then they did something at the repairservice that disabled the access to my hard drive for reason or another. I don't know.

Anyone ever faced something like this? Any ideas how I could test my phone to find out is the hard drive broken or anyway usable/accessible and or what can I do about it. Thanks.
 
kureyon is offline kureyon
2010-11-05 , 03:07
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In X terminal, as root, type the following commands and report back on the outputs:

Code:
mount
sfdisk -l
(-l is a lower case L)
 
maxximuscool is offline maxximuscool
2010-11-05 , 03:14
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Umm.. N900 doesn't have HDD by the way No wonder you canot have access to it.

eMMC = Yes
HDD = No
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durain is offline durain
2010-11-05 , 09:33
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Code:
~ $ mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
ubi0:rootfs on / type ubifs (rw,bulk_read,no_chk_data_crc)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=1024k)
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noatime,size=256k,moe=755)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,size=6536k)
nodev on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (0)
/dev/mmcblk1p1 on /media/mmc1 type vfat (rw,noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,utf8,uid=29999,shortname=mixed,dmask=000,fmask=0133,rodir)
Code:
~ $ sfdisk -l
-sh: sfdisk: not found
I don't know but could formating/reinstalling everything maybe help or worth trying? If I understood that could be done with this http://wiki.maemo.org/Flasher ?

Also I was wondering that could I use some microSD instead of the build-in one for everything? I was thinking if I could somehow reinstall Maemo to microSD. Maybe with that Flasher thing?
 
kureyon is offline kureyon
2010-11-05 , 14:49
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Re: mount, a normal system looks like this:

Code:
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
ubi0:rootfs on / type ubifs (rw,bulk_read,no_chk_data_crc)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=1024k)
tmpfs on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noatime,size=256k,mode=755)
none on /dev type tmpfs (rw,noatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,size=65536k)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=1,data=writeback)
/home/opt on /opt type none (bind)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /home/user/MyDocs type vfat (nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,utf8,uid=29999,gid=29999,shortname=mixed,dmask=000,fmask=0113,rodir)
nodev on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (0)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5 on /usr/lib/python2.5 type bind (bind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared on /usr/share/pyshared type bind (bind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared on /usr/lib/pyshared type bind (bind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support on /usr/share/python-support type bind (bind)
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support on /usr/lib/python-support type bind (bind)
/dev/mmcblk1p1 on /media/mmc1 type vfat (rw,noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,utf8,uid=29999,shortname=mixed,dmask=000,fmask=0133,rodir)
Two important lines are highlighted, they refer to the eMMC (what you called the "HDD").

Re: sfdisk, I said you need to run the command as root, but you didn't Being able to run that command will let you know whether the N900 sees the eMMC. If you are able to install apps, then go and install rootsh. Then in X terminal run:

Code:
root
sfdisk -l
 
durain is offline durain
2010-11-05 , 21:28
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If you are able to install apps, then go and install rootsh.
Ah alright but looks like it doesn't give anything. Doesn't output anything like there wasn't any partitions. Googled quite a bit more today and tried that flashing thing too. When flashing firmware everything goes right but when eMMC it says SU_GET_UPDATE_STATUS_REQ terminated with error code 1. What I understood that some other people that have had this same error have led to believe that the eMMC might be bad or broke.

I also found some instructions for using microSD as substitude for eMMC.

http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/.../751901#M17953

And actually got it really work. Or atleast I got my contacts copied from SIM to N900 which didn't work before.
 
kureyon is offline kureyon
2010-11-06 , 05:05
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I think you should take it back to the repair place and tell them they broke the eMMC
 
durain is offline durain
2010-11-06 , 09:04
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Yeah, I think I will. Thanks for the help
 
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