On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 23:50, Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dan Clowater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 10:03 PM
> > Subject: New HD Revised!?!
> >
> > > Indeed I am talking about the Redhat 8.0 distribution.
> >
> > Kewl.
> >
> > > #./fdisk /dev/hdb
> > >
> > > Unable to open /dev/hdb
> >
> > I don't know much about fdisk myself, but sure you don't use the partition
> > number itself instead of the drive? Like /dev/hdb1 and so on?
> >
> > I'm sure someone will chime in and help.
> >
> > Mike
>
> You might try:
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=512 ## just wipe the MBR
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb ## blank everything!
>
> to make it accessible to (c)fdisk.
>
> That's assuming it's /dev/hdb that's unreadable. Probably an HFS filesystem
> which your kernel may or may not be able to read.
>
> If you really want to get into it you can try compiling the hfs module
> assuming you have the kernel source and then mkdir /mnt/hdb(x); modprobe hfs;
> mount -t hfs /dev/hdb(x) /mnt/hdb(x).
>
> I just noted that fdisk doesn't have hfs listed in it's known partition types,
> nor does cfdisk.
>
> Just some random thoughts.
>
> Rinaldi
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OK - so I have tried all of the suggestions made thus far - frustrated -
I booted into windows - fdisk saw the drive - nuked partitions - and
made a new one and then formatted it which windows is happy with... but
I cannot mount or see it in linux.
Got this from my syslogger:
Nov 1 00:39:30 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
ide-disk
Nov 1 00:39:30 localhost kernel: hdb: driver not present
also:
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM20.5, ATA DISK drive
hdb: QUANTUM FIREBALL EX6.4A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 011, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: SONY CD-RW CRX175E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 40132503 sectors (20548 MB) w/1900KiB Cache, CHS=2498/255/63,
UDMA(66)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
PUZZLED!!!!
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J. Daniel J. Clowater
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