Just retried the fdisk and checked the syslog. In addition to the error that dmraid usually reports, fdisk gives an error if run without the '-l', and there's also a bit in the syslog. dmraid: # dmraid -a y ERROR: dos: reading /dev/mapper/hpt45x_bbdfhdjicg[2] fdisk: # fdisk /dev/mapper/hpt45x_bbdfhdjicg Unable to read /dev/mapper/hpt45x_bbdfhdjicg syslog: livecd device-mapper: : unknown target type livecd livecd device-mapper: error adding target to table (one of the syslog messages is blank.) I apologize for the spamming!