David Cooley wrote:
> It's probably something to do with the fact that I'm on a Sparc Ultra 2
> machine running Linux.
> Didn't think Linux saw the drives differently between platforms, but I
> guess it does.
I'm guessing the drives were orginally used under Solaris/SunOS? i.e. they had
a Sun disk label on them?
I had the exact same problem (RAID5 was fine until I rebooted.. then they were
reported as 'not a valid partition'). These were disks I used on a PC, but had
salvaged them from work where they had been used on Suns. AFAIK the problem is
in the Sun label. The way to fix it was to delete all partitions, write the
label, exit fdisk, restart fdisk, and make a new empty DOS partition table.
If you're wondering, I found it didn't work right if I didn't write the label,
quit and restart before making the empty DOS label.
I've also noticed that after you make the DOS label, it then does start from
cylinder 1 instead of 0... maybe that's where that line of thought came from.
--
Mike Marion - Unix SysAdmin/Engineer, Qualcomm Inc.
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
