Mike Chambers wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Clowater" <clowater@cogeco.ca> > To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:03 PM > Subject: New HD Revised!?! > > > Indeed I am talking about the Redhat 8.0 distribution. > > Kewl. > > > #./fdisk /dev/hdb > > > > Unable to open /dev/hdb > > I don't know much about fdisk myself, but sure you don't use the partition > number itself instead of the drive? Like /dev/hdb1 and so on? > > I'm sure someone will chime in and help. > > Mike You might try: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=512 ## just wipe the MBR dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb ## blank everything! to make it accessible to (c)fdisk. That's assuming it's /dev/hdb that's unreadable. Probably an HFS filesystem which your kernel may or may not be able to read. If you really want to get into it you can try compiling the hfs module assuming you have the kernel source and then mkdir /mnt/hdb(x); modprobe hfs; mount -t hfs /dev/hdb(x) /mnt/hdb(x). I just noted that fdisk doesn't have hfs listed in it's known partition types, nor does cfdisk. Just some random thoughts. Rinaldi -- The Devil is wise not because he is the Devil, but because he is old. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
