Hi all,

An ide hard drive has failed on a server machine and I have replaced it 
with a second scsi drive (which will be /dev/sdb).  The machine already 
has a /dev/sda.

On boot up the kernel appears to recognize the new disk but when I try 
to use fdisk I get:

fdisk: unable to open /dev/sdb

Fdisk has no trouble with /dev/hda and /dev/sda.

If I boot rom a tomsrootbt disk, I can use fdisk on /dev/sdb and then 
use mk2fs, but when I then try to boot from the normal kernel, the 
kernel seems to recognise /dev/sdb1 but cannot mount it (as /var), and 
fdisk will stll not recognse /dev/sdb.

Kernel is 2.4.23, fs is ext3 (compiled in) and ext2 as a module.

Can anyone please help with this as I need to get this machine back up 
asap.

-- 
David



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