On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:19:58PM +1100, David Fisher wrote: > 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.
Long shot, but have you had a look at the permissions on /dev/sdb*? Not *likely* to be the problem, but if sdb is listed in dmesg correctly, then it's about the only thing left, barring hardware failure - I've had that problem with a very old and crusty IDE drive - BIOS finds it, kernel says "hmm, disk there" (probably foolishly trusting the BIOS, methinks) but fdisk says "no cookie for you!". Might be a similar thing happening for your SCSI disk. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
