Package: util-linux Version: 2.12p-4 Severity: normal I have a couple of disks (both SCSI and IDE) which were partitioned and formatted on Debian GNU/Linux (Alpha). I connected them to my x86_64 box, and the driver sees the disks fine, i.e., remaxp:~# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y160M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330W Rev: S65A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DCHS04U Rev: 6464 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM OEM Model: DCHS09U Rev: 6363 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
(note the first one is my regular SATA disk). I can mount and access the data, and the device mapper even sees the logical volumes, but I cannot read the partition table using fdisk. For any disk I get the following message: remaxp:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 4335 MB, 4335206400 bytes 134 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1019 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8308 * 512 = 4253696 bytes Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table Of course, the first lines vary, but both non-interactive and interactive fdisk cannot obtain the partition table. Since this is independent of bus protocol (SCSI and PATA), and all tools I tried (mount, lvm, cp) accessed the disks just fine, I conclude that this is not a kernel issue (yes, BSD disk labels are configured in) but a problem in fdisk. Please reassing if this assumption is incorrect. So this bug can be worked around by simply trying to mount /dev/sda1, .. /dev/sdaN (/dev/hda1, .., /dev/hdaN) but still IMHO fdisk should be fixed. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-9-amd64-k8 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libuuid1 1.37-2 universally unique id library ii slang1a-utf8 1.4.9dbs-8 The S-Lang programming library wit ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys. [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg signed mail preferred 64bit GNU powered http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]