Ignoring partition

Can we ignore partition while inserting records from one server to another server.
I am getting error "ORA-14400: inserted partition key does not map to any partition " while trying to insert data into one table from other table which is there on other server using DBLINK

Hi,
Yes, you can do that using "When Others" sort of partition.
Here's an example:
CREATE TABLE big_table2 (
id            NUMBER(10),
created_date DATE,
lookup_id     NUMBER(10),
data          VARCHAR2(50)
PARTITION BY RANGE (created_date)
(PARTITION big_table_2003 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE('01/01/2004', 'DD/MM/YYYY')),
PARTITION big_table_2004 VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE('01/01/2005', 'DD/MM/YYYY')),
PARTITION big_table_2005 VALUES LESS THAN (MAXVALUE));Regards
Asif Momen
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Dmraid ignores partitions on primary array

I have two RAID 0 arrays on my installation. One array is two OCZ SSDs (named Sigma) and the other is a 2TB array (named Chi) for storage purposes. Both arrays were build using the Intel Matrix Storage Manager tool on my motherboard (just above the BIOS), and partitioned with a live-session of GParted. Originally when I installed Arch, dmraid did not pick up on the partition of the 2TB array, just the drive itself. I decided to rebuild the 2TB array, and the problem has reversed; dmraid will pick up on the storage partition of the larger array, but ignores the two partitions on the SSD array (it still sees the other array though). This means that I cannot boot into my installation on the SSD array, and have to run a live-session off of a USB drive to troubleshoot. The SSD array has two partitions, one for Windows and another for Arch so I can dual boot for gaming and non-open source software purposes.
I am currently running a live session of Ubuntu, which acknowledges both arrays and all partitions just fine. All the commands listed below are from the live-install running, but chrooted into my install on the SSD array.
Here is the error I get in grub when trying to boot:
Activating dmraid arrays...
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/mapper/isw_cjcefcajfc_Sigmap2
Root device '/dev/mapper/isw_cjcefcajfc_Sigmap2' doesn't exist attempting to create it.
Error: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/mapper/isw_cjcefcajfc_Sigmap2'
Here is the output of dmraid -tay on the Arch install (chrooted):
isw_bjcehbjhed_Chi: 0 3907039232 striped 2 256 /dev/sdc 0 /dev/sdd 0
isw_cjcefcajfc_Sigma: 0 250081280 striped 2 256 /dev/sda 0 /dev/sdb 0
isw_bjcehbjhed_Chip1: 0 3907037184 linear /dev/mapper/isw_bjcehbjhed_Chi 2048
Here is the output of dmraid -tay on the Ubuntu live session:
isw_bjcehbjhed_Chi: 0 3907039744 striped 2 256 /dev/sdc 0 /dev/sdd 0
isw_cjcefcajfc_Sigma: 0 250081792 striped 2 256 /dev/sda 0 /dev/sdb 0
isw_bjcehbjhed_Chi1: 0 3907037184 linear /dev/mapper/isw_bjcehbjhed_Chi 2048
isw_cjcefcajfc_Sigma1: 0 197650432 linear /dev/mapper/isw_cjcefcajfc_Sigma 2048
isw_cjcefcajfc_Sigma2: 0 52428800 linear /dev/mapper/isw_cjcefcajfc_Sigma 197652480
Here is the output of lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub to ESI Port (rev 13)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 13)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 13)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev 13)
00:14.0 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub System Management Registers (rev 13)
00:14.1 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub GPIO and Scratch Pad Registers (rev 13)
00:14.2 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Control Status and RAS Registers (rev 13)
00:14.3 PIC: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub Throttle Registers (rev 13)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 1
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 3
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) PCI Express Root Port 5
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 90)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801JIR (ICH10R) LPC Interface Controller
00:1f.2 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SMBus Controller
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon HD 5870 (Cypress)
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Cypress HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5800 Series]
04:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6121 SATA II Controller (rev b2)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
07:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev c0)
Thanks for taking the time to help me troubleshoot my install, I'm looking forward to getting my desktop to run Arch Linux.

Okay, I'm still not entirely sure whats going on here... but I did manage to fix it using the above idea. I destroyed the system array and rebuilt it from scratch - this gave it a device name higher alphabetically than the second array, and as such the correct set is activated by dmraid, allowing me to boot.
The bug still exists though - and indeed dmraid refuses to activate the partitions on the second array. I can access these partitions by running partprobe on the volume after boot.
Hope this helps someone, sorry i cant actually fix this or figure it more rigorously.
John

3.1EA1 database compare: add options to skip partitions comparison

I just tried the new comparison tool, and it works far better than the old one. Just, I didn't find an option to skip comparing the partitions, I mean how many partitions there are and their names/boundaries. For example if I am comparing a development database to a test one, I don't want to change how many partitions there are or their names, because they could be different - for example we use partitions to implement a rolling window of n days (partitions names are created form the partition dates), and n can be very different form the dev database to the test one and especially on production ones.

Thank you for trying our ea 3.1 release and providing feedback to the database diff utility.
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Drive/ Partition Size

I guess when I ordered a pile of Lenovo Pcs, they decided it would be ok to throw whatever HD they had in arms length into the box.
So, I had a 250 gb drive I created the image on. Half way through my order, I started getting a "partition size given is too large (not enough space on the drive)" error.
The last part of my order has 232 gb drives. I was unaware zenworks takes the drive size serious. Anyway, is there a way for me to image the master PC again, but have it ignore partition size so that my 10 gb image (built on a 250gb drive) will go on my new PC's???
Thanks,

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How can I automatically unmount my Windows partition in OSX?

Hey guys,
I have been having general performance slow down while in OSX since I (partitioned and) installed Windows 7 (onto the iMac below).
A couple of times, when I have been using OSX, I have found that if I unmount the Win 7 partition, then OSX will run faster and better.
Is there any way that I can automatically unmount the partition on startup/login? I do not mind if it is a script or something else I need to do/use, as the performance is becoming rather frustrating.
Thanks, Lib.

Hi,
have a look at the answers in this thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1984633&tstart=0
For starters, it might be sufficient to boot into WIndows a rename the Windows partition using the WIndows Explorer to something starting with a dot (e.g. .Windows).
OSX usually ignores partitions that start with a dot.
Regards
Stefan

Raid Drives on SATA shows BADMBR

I configured my two Seagates on the Promise SATA connectors as "stripe" and even "mirror" and it was fine within the Promise Bios.
When I get into Windows XP Professional and start my Partition Magic 8, it shows the drives as "yellow" color and "BADMBR". Even if I use the Partition Magic 8 rescue disks, it's the same.
I decided to change my bios of the Promise SATA connectors to "As SATA" and used Seagate's utility software "Seatools" and run both the "quick test" and "full test" on both the drives. Both tested ok.
The strange thing is, I just ignored Partition Magic 8 and proceeded to format my hard disk raid with XP's format. After formatting, I am able to copy data into the drive.
Can someone tell me, what could have gone wrong? I am on Bios version 2.0 now.
I had tried to use Maxtor's "powermax" utility but it could not detect the two SATA drives.
Hope someone could give me some suggestions.
Thank you.

I had been using it all the while. In fact, I originally had the two seagates SATA drive on the Promise controller, both as "stripe" and "mirror" before I got hold of the WD Raptors. My two 120GB hdds (striped) were on the ICH5R and I had moved them over to the Promise controller, so that I can hook up my WD Raptors onto the ICH5R. After each movement, I use Partition Magic 8 to prepare the partitions before I write back the data.
I'm sure that Maxtor's "powermax" will solve my problem if it can recognise both drives as I had IDE drives which had bad sectors and giving me problem and after I go through writting "zeros" to the drive with "powermax", it worked fine.

Analytical Function - COUNT issue

Hello All,
DB Oracle 11g running on Linux x86 64-bit platform ..
I'm curious to know why the below two sets of queries produce different reults.
Q 1
WITH TEMP AS
SELECT 'ONE' VAL, 5 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'ONE' VAL, 7 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'FIVE' VAL, 17 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'FOUR' VAL, 0 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'THREE' VAL, 78 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'THREE' VAL, 34 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'THREE' VAL, -4 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'TWO' VAL, 6 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'TWO' VAL, 12 PAR FROM DUAL
SELECT DISTINCT SUM(PAR) OVER(PARTITION BY VAL), VAL CNT FROM TEMP;
Q2
WITH TEMP AS
SELECT 'ONE' VAL, 5 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'ONE' VAL, 7 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'FIVE' VAL, 17 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'FOUR' VAL, 0 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'THREE' VAL, 78 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'THREE' VAL, 34 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'THREE' VAL, -4 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'TWO' VAL, 6 PAR FROM DUAL UNION ALL
SELECT 'TWO' VAL, 12 PAR FROM DUAL
SELECT DISTINCT SUM(PAR) OVER(PARTITION BY VAL ORDER BY PAR) CNT, VAL FROM TEMP;
The only difference between the 2 queries is Q2 has the 'ORDER BY' extra.
For Q2, I was assuming the partitions are ordered by PAR and the SUM is applied over the partition. Obviously, the results prove my assumption is wrong.
So, Q2 is just as good as select * from temp;

Hi,
You're right about "ORDER BY par"; it means that the SUM will be from the lowest value of par up to and including the current row.
I think you're ignoring "PARTITION BY val", which means every distinct value of val will be a world unto itself, not affected by any rows with a different value of val. Since val is different on every row, that means the SUM shown will always be the SUM of just that 1 item, so SUM (par) will indeed be the same as par.
Try it without the PARTITION BY clause.

HD Corruption...

My iMac HD was set up to have 3 partitions. The first partition contained the OS and all the Apps. Partition 2 had all my work and partition 3 was used to run Parallels and Windows. This HD was booting with Mavericks.
Recently, partition 1 became corrupt. On booting, a string of code would drop down from the top left of the monitor for just a couple of seconds and the computer would shut down.
I tried everything but nothing would work.
Connecting to another iMac in Target mode to run TechTool Pro and the other computer would crash before I had chance to run TechTool Pro.
Trying to boot in recovery mode resulted in an eventual shutdown and restart once the corrupt partition tried to load and this would just keep repeating.
Trying to re-install the OS from Apple 'over the top' and the installation would stop halfway through and the computer would restart. This 'loop' would just continue for as long as you would let it.
So I could get on with my work, my bright idea was to have the HD replaced with a new one and then access the corrupt drive through an external dock, which I have done before. Using this method, I figured as I now didn't need partition 1 to boot from, I was hoping to ignore partition 1 and get all my work off partition 2 and then reformat the HD.
With a new HD installed by my local Apple technician and now booting with Yosemite, the iMac is as good as new, but when connecting the old, corrupt HD through an external dock and USB cable the same problem occurs and crashes the iMac. I just can't 'get into' the corrupt HD now running from an external dock. I was hoping the three partitions would pop up on the desktop and I could access them.
If anyone has any ideas I would be most grateful. I have the latest TechTool Pro, Disk Warrior etc., but with no way to access the old, corrupt HD, it looks like I will lose an awful lot of work. (Yes, I know I should back up). In an ideal world, which was the original plan, I had hoped to be able to erase partition 1 once it was running from the external dock and continue on my way. Maybe someone knows something I don't that I can try.
Best wishes from Phuket - Thailand

'...I have now solved this problem.
Using an excellent piece of software from Mediafour: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive
called MacDrive Pro ($49.99 standard - $69.99 MacDrive Pro), once installed on a computer running Windows and connecting the external Mac Hard Drive through an Ethernet cable to the PC, all my files popped up on the PC.
I have been able to copy them all over without losing anything, reformat the corrupt HD and copy everything back...so I'm happy and just before Christmas, so it was a surprise 'gift' as I had given up ever seeing all my work or files ever again.
On that note, Merry Christmas to all.' (Christmas 2014)

Ignoring ipod firmware partition?

This has been driving me nuts for awhile. I've done alot of googling, and still can't seem to find anything that works.
In Thunar, it shows my ipod's firmware partition as "Apple iPod Music Player", but when I click on it I get the following error:
Given device "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part1_size_41094144" is not a volume or drive.
I've tried to set a hal rule to ignore it, but it seems to have no effect.
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/90-user-policy.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="block.device" string="/dev/sdf1">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
According to lshal, the rule is set
volume.ignore = true (bool)
but Thunar is ignoring it? Or should I be setting something different all together to get it to ignore it? :S

You're not...
I'm using an Ipod (Nano 2Gb, grey or silver as you like... do not really know its "generation" but I guess it's one of the last as I bought it some months ago...)
However I have no problems using it... When I plug it and open Thunar, it shows 2 devices :
- Apple iPod Music Player
- IPOD (FRED) (just below the latter)
And by clicking on IPOD (FRED) it mounts it and I can use gtkpod without any problems...
Truly it's strange that it shows 2 devices, though as long as it works...
I cannot truly help you as I did not do anything particular to make it work (except adding me to the storage group for hal)...
Though I'll try to see if there is something particular somewhere that makes it work...
Hope you'll manage to get it to work...
Good luck !
EDIT :
Here is a screenshot that shows my thunar when my Ipod is plugged into the laptop.
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n33/ … _scrot.png
Last edited by Origynet (2007-06-07 07:59:22)

Windows partition ignored by macos, long boot times

So, after boot camp refused to resize my Windows partition, I decided to use the old standby of using GParted off of a linux live cd. I just kinda assumed there would be no problem, but after the fact I've discovered there could be some problems. The most specific thing I can find is that the "msftrees" flag will be set on the partition you make and that it can also cause some trouble with updating the GPT and MBR.
Anyway, here are my symptoms:
1. MacOS pretty much ignores the Windows partition (It's Windows 7). It doesn't appear in the startup menu at all and I don't have access to the drive. You might be able to mount it manually, I haven't tried.
2. Very slow boot times for windows. You can select the option to boot from the Windows partition by holding down option at boot, but the boot takes a very long time. When you select the windows partition, it goes to a blank screen with a blinking underscore character in the upper left for 2~3 minutes and then finally shows the windows loading screen and continues to boot normally.
Here is my partition layout:
* Report for internal hard disk *
Current GPT partition table:
# Start LBA End LBA Type
1 40 409639 EFI System (FAT)
2 409640 560668499 Mac OS X HFS+
3 560668500 625137344 MS Reserved
Current MBR partition table:
# A Start LBA End LBA Type
1 1 409639 ee EFI Protective
2 409640 560668499 af Mac OS X HFS+
3 * 560668500 625137344 07 NTFS/HPFS
MBR contents:
Boot Code: Unknown, but bootable
Partition at LBA 40:
Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
File System: FAT32
Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)
Partition at LBA 409640:
Boot Code: None
File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+
Listed in MBR as partition 2, type af Mac OS X HFS+
Partition at LBA 560668500:
Boot Code: Windows BOOTMGR (Vista)
File System: NTFS
Listed in GPT as partition 3, type MS Reserved
Listed in MBR as partition 3, type 07 NTFS/HPFS, active
Thanks in advance.

Check out this thread, I posted a possible solution.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2224948

Ignoring only "Drop Partition" DDLs.

Hi,
I am doing a proof of concept to see if we can use Golden Gate to replicate data from our Primary database (Oracle 10g) to a reporting database. The primary is an OLTP database and I intend to use the "IGNOREDELETES" feature so that any purging done to remove historical data (from primary) will not remove anything from the reporting database.
In case of partitioned tables when I drop a partition to remove older data, can I have Golden Gate not replicate only this DDL (drop partition) command?
Thank you.

Hello,
You disable all of them in order to delete the parent record and correponding child record (remember it wont' let you delete unless you take care of all the dependencies) and it won't let you enable if you missed to delete any child record.
Regards
Edited by: OrionNet on Mar 17, 2009 11:32 AM

Using a partition to share files among multiple computers?

I have a small business with just a few employees and we currently share all of our business files which are hosted on my Macbook Pro. These files include an Aperture library, an iPhoto library, and a bunch of just plain old files, including a fairly large Filemaker database. I like having these files on my computer so that I can access them quickly (without lag), and this is particularly important for the database and the photo libraries. And since I am often working 'after hours' its easy for me to be on the move (even if its just a move to my couch!) and still have quick and easy access to the work files.
However, we're having some major problems with file permissions. Sometimes (and seemingly randomly) employees can't open files because they don't have permission' and often I need to reset the permissions on files my employees create in order to open them myself. iPhoto needs to "repair" the photo library just about any time a different user opens it up. It looks like we just lost a couple hours worth of work yyesterday tagging photos in iPhoto since they mysterously dissapeared when I opened iPhoto this morning.
So we need a solution that will get us around this permissions nightmare. I read one suggestion about putting iPhoto/Aperture libraries on an external HD and sharing them that way, however, totting a hard drive around might get akward, especially if I am working after hours, and I Don't know that it solves our issue with the rest of our work files. At this point I would be willing to invest in a Mac Mini server if that would solve some problems, but that would probably leave me with slower access to the files than I currently enjoy.
So the thought came to me, why don't I partition my hard drive and use half of it for all the work files? Could I set it up so permissions are ignored on that partitions as is reccommened for the external HD solution? Are there other solutions, or pitfalls with this solution that I'm not considering?

ArisaemaDracontium wrote:
I'd like to use the method described in the following link. Can I do this with a partition instead of an external drive?:
Yes.
Can I partition my drive without whiping it entirely and then having to restore everything?
Probably. See #3 in Using Disk Utility.
Also, the "Alternative Method" mentions using a disk image. My experience with disk images is limited to those temporary "disks" used when installing new software that are erased when put in the trash or the computer restarts. Is there such thing as a perminent disk image?
Yes. You can create and keep them anywhere. They're kind of like a disk-within-a-disk. They have their own format, directories, etc. For example, some folks use encrypted disk images for their sensitive files.
There are a few considerations:
Only one user can access it at a time, so if you use Fast User Switching and one user has it open, others won't be able to use it.
You'll need to put it in each user's Login Items so it will be mounted at login, per the article.
The contents will not be backed-up while it's mounted.
(But, in many cases the iPhoto Library won't be backed-up by Time Machine while the iPhoto app is open, no matter where it is.)

Thunderbolt partitioned and formatted hard drive not recognized on USB2/3

I have a MBA (mid 2012) and recently purchased a Seagate Desktop Thunderbolt Adapter (STAE129), a Seagate Backup Plus 4TB USB 3.0 external drive (STCA4000100), and Apple Thunderbolt cable. The 4TB hard drive can be separated from the USB 3.0 adapter and the drive placed on the Thunderbolt adapter. I created two partitions (3TB and 1 TB) on the 4TB drive while it was mounted on the Thunderbolt adapter and formatted them Mac OS Extended (Journaled) using partition map scheme GPT. Everything works as expected, the drive hits r/w speeds in the 180 MB/s range (using Blackmagic Disk Speed Test), and no issues at all transferring data to the 3TB partition and using the 1TB partition for TimeMachine.
However, if I disconnect the hard drive from the Thunderbolt adapter and place it on the USB 3.0 adapter and connect it to my MBA, Mountain Lion says "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer and gives me the options to Initialize, Ignore, or Eject. Going into Disk Utility app, the drive shows up without the partitions I created when the same drive was mounted to the Thunderbolt adapter (just shows disk1s1). In fact, the drive label (Disk Description) is different too and the Partition Map Scheme now shows MBR!
To try work-arounds, I went ahead and repeated the partitioning and formatting steps with the drive attached via USB 3.0 and all works fine until I put the drive back on the Thunderbolt adapter where once again OSX reports that the disk is not readable. I've even tried a single partition with no luck. In short, the drive partitioned and formatted on Thunderbolt is unrecognized under USB and vice versa.
Shouldn't the disk preparation and data be consistent across these different interfaces? I would think so. My biggest concern is that if I had a failure in the Thunderbolt setup (assuming the drive itself does not fail), then I can't access my data. This is not a very comfortable situation.
I'm assuming I've overlooked a very basic detail. Appreciate any steer to solve this problem.
Thanks,
Rob

Thanks for that, I recently ran into the same problem. I even chatted with Seagate tech support and they didn't know the answer.
My situation is a bit different from you. I bought the 3 TB Thunderbolt version of the drive directly and then purchased a USB 3 adaptor seperately. You see, I still own a 3 year old Macbook Pro that doesn't come with a Thunderbolt port. I was looking to upgade to a MacBook Air later. I thought that I might as well buy the TB version now.
In anycase, my old MacBook Pro won't see the drive when I use the USB3 adaptor. I get the same exact error message as you did. I can't really test it on Thunderbolt since I don't have one. I'm going to go install the Thunderbolt drivers now and hopefully, it will recognize the drive afterwards. I'll let you know what happens.
BTW, I was thinking of reformatting the drive with NTFS so that I can use the drive on PCs. My mac has the NTFS drivers loaded so it's no problem. I hope this won't screw up the Thunderbolt connection later when I do get the Macbook Air?

The guide to bootcamp assistant states that bootcamp can only be installed on a drive with a single partition. New Macs with Lion preinstalled have two partitions - the second is a recovery partition. How do I install Bootcamp?

Late in August 2011 I took delivery of a new 27" iMac with Lion preinstalled. I need to run Windows as well. Following Apple's written suggestion, I printed off the then current 12 pages of the document "Bootcamp Installation & Setup Guide" which clearly stated that the hard drive you were going to install on had to have on it, before install, a maximum of one partition. Using finder and disk utility I determined that there was only one partition. Unbeknownst to me, there was (is) an additional hidden (from those two pieces of software) partition on the disk. As of machines delivered new with Lion preinstalled, Apple has begun to include a "recovery partition". In that partition there is a copy of the software necessary to reinstall Lion via a download from the Apple App Store. Not knowing the partition was there, I cranked up "Bootcamp Assistant" which nicely offered to repartition my hard drive creating a "Bootcamp Partition" in addition to the existing. I told it how big to make each and hit the do it button, subsequently destroying my operating system. Oh, it very nicely told me, after the damage was done, how many partitions were REALLY on the disk and that I could not install Bootcamp cause there were too many partitions.
Luckily the the Recovery Partition, which at that point I knew existed, was not harmed and after doing some research on another compter, I used it to once again download Lion from the App Store and reinstall. So, I have recovered but am still stuck with the problem: how do I install Bootcamp in this new environment?

First you need to seriously back up your Mac.
A clone is an exact duplicate of your existing Mac HDD. Merely copying and pasting a drive will not make a bootable backup. In case of problems you can boot from an Ext HDD clone and use the utilities to repair, reformat, or clone the Ext HDD back to the internal Mac HDD. While Time machine back ups are easy you can not boot from it. The best thing to have for any kind of problem is a bootable clone backup on an external drive. Some even have two external backup drives in case one fails. There are two good apps for cloning named SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner.
In dealing with the recovery partition a simple approach is to clone the Mac partition to an external disk then re-partition the Mac to a single partition (GUID partition table) . Then clone the external disk clone back to the Mac. You will now have only one Partition and Boot Camp assistant sould not object.
Some have recommended getting rid of the recovery partition while others have advised not to do this. If you have the Lion USB Thumb Drive you do not need a recovery partition so can discard it without concern. There is another way to get rid of the recovery partition if you decide to do it but first be sure to have a backup of your Mac ( I know I sound like a nagging mom but many dead computers have been saved by this simple precaution).
Use Disk Utility.
1) Make the Recovery visible in Disk Utility by using a program like Secrets:http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27025/secrets or MacPilot:http://www.koingosw.com/products/macpilot.php (15 day free trial).
2) Highlite the Recovery partition and Control click it and select Mount the partition.
3) With the Recovery partition highlited, erase the partition, you'll get an error message, ignore it.
4) Now highlite the top identity of the hard drive and select the partition tab.
5) Highlite the Recovery partition and press the minus sign.
6) Click and hold on the bottom edge of the partition above and drag it to the bottom, if it doesn't go there automatically, the press apply.

Do I need to change boot disk partition types - if so how?

I set my boot disk up with several partitions, one of which is the Apple_UFS partition type. I now want to be able to use if for Mac data files - pdfs, word docs, etc. (I'm running 10.4.11 on a powerpc - when I can afford an Intel macbook, I'll upgrade to Leopard).
I have some questions:
1) Will puttting Mac files on a Apple_UFS volume cause problems (rsource & data forks in files)? (If its OK, then skip to Q6 &Q7 which I'd like to know for future reference).
2) Should I change the partition type (to Apple_HFSX)? There's no data on it now, so that's not a problem.
3) Disk Utility won't let me change partition type, only change the name. Diskutil has the command " eraseVolume format name device", but I suspect that format is the current format, not a new format - please correct me if I'm wrong.
4) pdisk interactive mode has the "t" command which looks like what I want.
5) after the partition type is changed, I presume I then need to use newfs_hfs -
6) I am confused about the device/partition name - "diskutil -l" shows "/dev/disk0" with the partition I want to change as "disk0s11". "pdisk - l" shows "/dev/rdisk0" and the partition number as 11. The "newfs_hfs -h" gives an example of "newfs_hfs -v Untitled /dev/rdisk0s7". So in my case, is my device "/dev/rdisk0s11"??
7) I have an external firewire drive that also is partitioned. "pdisk -l" and "diskutil list" give different outputs - partitions 1-9 are the same on both (Apple stuff), but pdisk show several "Apple_Free" partitions that diskutil ignores - pdisk has 23 total partitions, hdutil has 18. So which number do you use for the disk-identifier?
Thanks for any help on this confusing matter.

The regular versions of PSE 10 have the same kind of automatic updating (just go to Help>Updates and let the updater do its thing) that full Photoshop has. You can update the raw converter in the app store version, but since apple requires that everything in app store programs has to live within the app package itself, the file paths are different, so unless adobe updates the whole program so you can update through the app store, the adobe updater doesn't know what to do. You can do it manually, but it's kind of complicated to dig everything out of the adobe update, not as simple as it was in older versions of PSE.
This thread over at the adobe forum gives you the general process for updating the app store version:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4106312#4106312

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