On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > Hello again List, > > $ sudo  fdisk -l > > Unable to seek on /dev/sda > > What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the > underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at > the moment. Google doesn't help. > > The box is a new Armari system with an Asus P7P55D motherboard and a > Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB SATA II hdd. > > -- > Rgds > Peter. > > Very strange.
What's in dmesg when the machine boots? Is it possible an older driver got loaded and it's showing up as hda instead of sda? I found that on one of my machines recently. - Mark
