On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 19:46, Matt Palmer wrote: > > 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
Thanks, Matt, will check for that, as unlikely as it seems. What perplexes me is that tomsrootbt fdisk recognizes it but the fdisk on the actual machine in single user mode doesn't. -- David Would anyone like any toast? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
