Hello. There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde. The 6th disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo says. But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with "Unable to open /dev/sdf". strace fdisk /dev/sdf gives
open("/dev/sdf", O_RDWR) = -1 ENXIO (Device not configured) open("/dev/sdf", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENXIO (Device not configured) What is missing here? Other details follow, thank you. Andreas Wehler ============================================================ Debian 2.0 # uname -a Linux classix 2.0.34 #3 Thu Jan 14 10:38:59 CET 1999 i686 unknown # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 (-------------> sda) Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130W Rev: S92A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 (-------------> sdb) Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130W Rev: S92A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 (-------------> sdc) Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130W Rev: S92A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: C1533A Rev: A708 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: TEAC Model: CD-ROM CD-532S Rev: 1.0A Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4260 Rev: 1.0j Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 (-------------> sdd) Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST19171N Rev: 0024 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 (-------------> sde) Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST19171N Rev: 0024 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 (-------------> sdf) Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39140N Rev: 1281 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 # ls -al /dev/sdf* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 80 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 81 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 90 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf10 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 91 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf11 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 92 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf12 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 93 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf13 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 94 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf14 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 95 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf15 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 82 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 83 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 84 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 85 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 86 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 87 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf7 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 88 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf8 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 89 Jun 24 1998 /dev/sdf9 -- CAD/CAM straessle GmbH Tel.: (+49) 211 - 52740 - 228 Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler Fax.: (+49) 211 - 52740 - 280 http://www.cc-straessle.com