On Thursday 08 December 2005 01:18, Ian P. Christian wrote: > Basically, I can't use fdisk on /dev/sda. I can however boot off this > array, and everything is working fine - I'm having no issues using this > array for anything else. A live, and apparently healthy system is running > from it. > > # fdisk -l > Unable to seek on /dev/sda I've just installed parted and tried this - oddly, this works fine. Why might sfdisk and fdisk fail to read the partition table, but parted work fine? Kind Regards, -- Ian P. Christian ~ http://pookey.co.uk - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html