<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">Thanks in advance for your help!<br><br>The latest G4L, Ghost for Linux, refuses to access the hard drive on a Dell E6410 laptop. The error message is "hdparm: ioctl 0x304 failed: inappropriate ioctl for device", then "hdparm: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY: inappropriate ioctl for device".<br>
<br>The user selected the latest stable kernel from the g4l boot menu, selected option 1 which is g4l, then selected raw mode, and then click and clone. When she selected the target /dev/sda was when the error message came back. I double checked with her that she had selected the bx38.4 2.6.38.4 april 21 2011 kernel. Somehow I think I'm missing something simple here that pertains to the Dell controller or drive. I dimly remember running into some problem with the disk controller a year ago when first installing Ubuntu over the Vista Home that had to do with the controller and solid state disk support. There is a regular 500Gb SATA drive in the laptop that the bios is warning on boot has "imminent disk failure" problems. We are running Dell Diagnostics on the drive now. I'm just stumped by the G4L error message. Her fdisk output that she sent me also looks like this:</font><br>
<br>Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders<br>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
Disk identifier: 0x0005496a<br>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>/dev/sda1 * 1 13 96256 83 Linux<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><br>Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.</span><br>
/dev/sda2 13 60802 488288257 5 Extended<br>/dev/sda5 13 1958 15624192 82 Linux swap / Solaris<br>/dev/sda6 1958 4389 19529728 83 Linux<br>/dev/sda7 4389 60802 453132288 83 Linux<br>
<br>I would appreciate any advice on how to get g4l to read /dev/sda.<br><br><font size="4"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Best wishes,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dow</span></font></font><br><br>