Hmmm
        had a similiar problem myself. The Sandisk sometimes wants to be hda only
or it wont work. ( I later found that for some reason it did not like the
hard disk - western digital 2.0 gig. in dev/hda the problem did not occur
with seagate drives. )

regards....

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> From: Ryan Bedwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Linux embedded mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Sandisk problems
> Date: Saturday, January 23, 1999 3:28 AM
> 
> I've got a 20MB Sandisk, and Linux (Red Hat 5.1) is not recognizing it at
> boot up. I've got the flash disk set as slave and a regular hard drive as
> master.  BIOS sees/autodetects them both fine.  Dos sees both drives, but
> even if I specify kernel parameters (hdb=640,2,32), I still get a "Unable
> to open /dev/hdb" when I try to fdisk it.  In the boot-up messages, there
> is nothing about /dev/hdb.
> 
> Any experience with this or ideas where I need to look?
> 
> -+-+-+-+-+-+-+
> Ryan Bedwell (ryanb [at] transera [dot] com)
> Design Engineer - TransEra Corp. (http://www.transera.com)

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