On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 23:50, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote: > 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 OK - so I have tried all of the suggestions made thus far - frustrated - I booted into windows - fdisk saw the drive - nuked partitions - and made a new one and then formatted it which windows is happy with... but I cannot mount or see it in linux. Got this from my syslogger: Nov 1 00:39:30 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ide-disk Nov 1 00:39:30 localhost kernel: hdb: driver not present also: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM20.5, ATA DISK drive hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, ATA DISK drive hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 011, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX175E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 40132503 sectors (20548 MB) w/1900KiB Cache, CHS=2498/255/63, UDMA(66) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 > PUZZLED!!!! -- J. Daniel J. Clowater clowater@cogeco.ca -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
