BlueScsi two partitions on one scsi id?

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Title: BlueScsi two partitions on one scsi id?
Post by: mikei on February 11, 2025, 04:19:47 PM
I have a Seagate ST15150 4G drive that once upon a time I partitioned into two 2 Gbyte partitions. Thought I could make a 4Gbyte file on my SD card and then do what I did with the Seagate ( how I forgot, but somehow did it ... )...  I can use "disk" to create a new 2Gbyte partition easily. And can use the -p option but it seems to give me two partitions that add up to 2Gbytes.  I know I can just use another SD file and scsi drive id, but for now really wanted to cram my two old sd6a and sd6b seagate partitions into that one scsi id.  Anyone done this??
Title: Re: BlueScsi two partitions on one scsi id?
Post by: don_apple on February 12, 2025, 12:43:59 AM
What kind of BlueSCSI do you have?

If it is the BlueSCSIv2 "desktop" version, and the main goal is to transfer the data from the Seagate drive, then the easiest way to achieve this would be to use the "initiator" mode of the BlueSCSIv2: https://bluescsi.com/docs/Initiator-Mode

This should create a complete image of the Seagate drive with all partitions.
Title: Re: BlueScsi two partitions on one scsi id?
Post by: mikei on February 12, 2025, 02:28:21 PM
Many thanks. That just worked amazingly well ... Everything imaged off the Seagate, ( both partitions sda and sdb ), onto the one image file on the SD. Swapped the jumpers back, booted the machine and was able to mount a /dev/sd6a and a /dev/sd6b just the way it was on the Seagate. Couldn't have been easier.

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