Talk:Detecting drive identity

I logged on to the screenplay via telnet as described.

I copied identify programm to the HDD1 folder. It exists - I listed it via "ls -la"-command. "-rw--- 1 root root 5982 Jan 27 2009 identify"

But the chmod command got the error "chmod: identify: Operation not supported"

Can anyone tell me what's my mistake?

--78.54.56.153 04:58, 7 August 2009 (UTC) this is a post from Susan1967 on 7th of August 2009


 * I'm curious as to why the error is coming back the way you've put it. Type id on the command line (just two letters, id followed by enter) to confirm that you are logged in as root with full permissions (uid and gid should be 0). type ls -ld /tmp/hddmedia/ (be sure to include the last /) and let me know what the permissions are. Also, let me know what version of the firmware your system is running (it's in the menu, setup > system and it will show the firmware version). Then type mount and report back with what it said. --JCoug 03:18, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

hi JCoug,

thanks for your response.

I did my homework - that's the output you asked for:

/ # id uid=0(root) gid=0(root)

/ # ls -ld /tmp/hddmedia/ drwx-- 1 root root 4096 Aug 6 16:57 /tmp/hddmedia/

/ # mount /dev/root on / type ext3 (ro) none on /dev type devfs (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /tmp type ramfs (rw) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 on /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer type ext3 (rw ) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 on /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/H DD1 type ntfs (rw,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=0177,dmask=077,nls=utf8,errors=continue,mft_ zone_multiplier=1) /dev/rd/0 on /mnt/rd type vfat (rw,nodiratime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp4 37,iocharset=iso8859-1)

the firmware version is 09/19/2008 R1.0

do I have to change the filesystem to rw before I can change attributes of identify-file ? you didn't write this to your instruction list to report seagate firmaware - it's only an idea of mine. I'm not a professional with unix-systems.

I'm looking forward to your new response.

greetings from Susan
 * Hi Susan. I would suggest that you just copy it to the second partition (mounted at usr/local/etc/dvdplayer) then do a chmod and run it from there. Then you can remove the file afterwards. Here's the exact set of commands
 * cp /tmp/hddmedia/identify /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/identify
 * chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/identify
 * /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/identify
 * rm /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/identify
 * --JCoug 06:37, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

I get the same "chmod: identify: Operation not supported" error. I got around it by moving the 'identify' executable to /tmp and then chmoding it from there and executing it. I guess it has something to do with what operations the filesystem supports? 82.39.210.203 11:16, April 11, 2010 (UTC)