Dan Clowater wrote: >On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 22:33, Mike Chambers wrote: > >Yepp - thanks Mike! :) > >Indeed I am talking about the Redhat 8.0 distribution. > >I am trying to format/mount a newly acquired 6GB drive. That's why I am >asking here. I am not having hardware problems - the hard drive works. >I simply want to know how to set it up in RHL8... > >I did this: > >#ls /proc/ide >drivers hda hdb hdc hdd ide0 ide1 sis ># > >SO... it can see the drive - but when I try to fdisk it I get this: > >#./fdisk /dev/hdb > >Unable to open /dev/hdb ># > How did you connect the new drive? For it to be hdb, it should be the slave drive on the primary ide interface. You did set the master/slave jumpers on both drives? Have you tried an fdisk -l ? This will list the partition tables, and hopefully it will recognize the MAC format. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
