On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:05, Matt Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:50:59PM +1100, David Fisher wrote: > > 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. > >
The problem turned out to be missing device files in /dev. After being created with mknod, I can now access the disk. Many more problems remain. -- 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
