Reformat SATA Drive

  1. Disable sata write protect

    devmem 0x83c10094 32 0

  2. Create SATA Partition

    In Tera Term, enter this series of commands: fdisk /dev/sda d n p 1 Press “Enter” Key twice v w fdisk -l

  3. Unmount SATA drive

    umount /dev/sda1

*if new board, may already be mounted

  1. Make file system an ext3 image

    mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1

  2. Copy file into SATA drive

    dd if=rootfs.ext3 of=/dev/sda1

  3. Fill in partition with ‘0’

    resize2fs -f /dev/sda1