Hi > Howard Lowndes wrote: > > I think it's there because, before I started, I tried: > > fdisk /dev/hdc > > and it came back that it couldn't read the device. Now when I do fdisk > > /dev/hdc it comes back with a correct looking partition table that > > matches the master. > > well it wasn't there to begin with. > what does ls -alh /dev/hdc say? > > fdisk should not say 'can't read the device' when you try it on an empty > disk. It should just have no partition table on it. Ie, when you go p > for print, it has only free space.
And maybe your distro is doing magic like mine is: SuSE 9.2 and 'subfs' /dev/hdc mounted on /media/cdrecorder ... ??? So as I try to setup some flash IDE disks: fdisk /dev/hdc # all normal mke2fs /dev/hda1 # seems normal mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt # FAILS, no messages just prompt I did not have time to discover WTF they had done, booted a RH9 system and all exactly as expected (mount, copy files, umount) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
