david,
it seems that your new(?) HD hasn't been formated and doesn't have any
partition created (as a new drive should be).
Try to use fdisk to create some partition or file-system to make the
system happy and let you add your drive.
orlando
David C. Hoos wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just added an IDE drive (Maxtor 33073H3) to my LM7.1
> system. The existing drive is a SCSI drive, and IDE0 has
> a CD-ROM and a ZIP drive.
>
> I added the new drive as the master on IDE1, and kudzu
> detected the drive.
>
> Despite the fact that the drive is configured in the BIOS for
> LBa (3736 cyl., 255 hd., 63 spt.), the kudzu database has the
> following entry:
>
> class: HD
> bus: IDE
> detached: 0
> device: hdc
> driver: ignore
> desc: "Maxtor 33073H3"
> physical: 59556/16/63
> logical: 59556/16/63
>
> When I try to run fdisk /dev/hdc, I get the following result:
>
> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF
> disklabel
> Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
> until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
> content won't be recoverable.
>
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> When I run fdisk -l /dev/hdc, I get the following result:
>
> Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 59556 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
> Disk /dev/hdc doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
>
> All suggestions gratefully anticipated.
