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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Set internal hard drives unaccessible to imager Post 302591760 by Corona688 on Friday 20th of January 2012 12:53:06 PM
Old 01-20-2012
You can rule out a lot of internal hard disk controllers by preventing ahci.ko from loading, if that's built as a module and not built-in. This also rules out a lot of internal cdroms though.

You could try disabling your hard-drive controller in the BIOS.

If you're able to run any commands on the clonezilla disk before clonezilla starts doing things, how about chmod 000 /dev/sda* ? Might fail if clonezilla runs everything as root, but worth a shot.

You could also use a machine with no internal hard drives!
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gsmartcontrol

GSmartControl(1)						   User Commands						  GSmartControl(1)

NAME

       GSmartControl - Hard disk drive health inspection tool

SYNOPSIS

       gsmartcontrol [OPTIONS]

       gsmartcontrol-root [<desktop> [OPTIONS]]

DESCRIPTION

       GSmartControl  is  a  graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-
       Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to  deter-
       mine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

       This manual page documents briefly the gsmartcontrol and gsmartcontrol-root commands.

       gsmartcontrol-root command launches gsmartcontrol with administrative privileges. The desktop argument specifies which desktop is currently
       running, for automatic selection of native su mechanism. Valid values for desktop are auto, kde, gnome, other.

OPTIONS

   Help Options:
       -?, --help
	      Show help options

       --help-all
	      Show all help options

       --help-gtk
	      Show GTK+ options

       --help-debug
	      Show logging options

   Application Options:
       -l, --no-locale
	      Disable locale

       -V, --version
	      Display version information

       --no-scan
	      Don't scan devices on startup

       --no-hide-tabs
	      Don't hide non-identity tabs when SMART is disabled. Useful for debugging.

       --add-virtual
	      Load smartctl data from file, creating a virtual drive

       --add-device
	      Add this device to device list. Useful with --no-scan to list certain drives only.

       --display=DISPLAY
	      X display to use

       -v, --verbose
	      Enable verbose logging; same as --verbosity-level 5

       -q, --quiet
	      Disable logging; same as --verbosity-level 0

       -b, --verbosity-level
	      Set verbosity level [0-5]

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2008 - 2009  Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri 'at' gmail.com>

AUTHOR

       This manual page was originally written by Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>, for the Debian project.

gsmartcontrol															  GSmartControl(1)
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