Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-03 Thread Alice M. Pinard
Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise Ultra card for first use. used MAKEDEV to create /dev/hde when I did 'cfdisk /dev/hde' I got "no partition table or unknown signature on partition table" um... does that sound at all right? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Elizabeth Barham
"Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise Ultra card for first use. > > used MAKEDEV to create /dev/hde > > when I did 'cfdisk /dev/hde' I got "no partition table or unknown > signature on partition table" > > um... does that sound at all right?

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Alice M. Pinard
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise Ultra card for first use. > > > > used MAKEDEV to create /dev/hde > > > > when I did 'cfdisk /dev/hde' I got "no partition table or unknown > > signature

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread ben
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 04:21 am, Alice M. Pinard wrote: [snip] > > now, the 'hde' stuff is new this login, which is nice... means I did at > least that right. Last night I had no /dev/hde so I had to use MAKEDEV to > make it > > 'cdisk /dev/hde' still however says the stuff about no partition > ta

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 07:21, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > Let me clarify > > I have one hard drive, 2g. It's almost full. The well-meaning bf bought me > a 60g hd. My motherboard doesn't grok 60g. I bought a Promise Ultra > ATA/100 pci adapter card to be its ide controller. Eventually I will be >

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Alice M. Pinard
"Scott Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 07:21, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > > > Let me clarify > > > > I have one hard drive, 2g. It's almost full. The well-meaning bf bought me > > a 60g hd. My motherboard doesn't grok 60g. I bought a Pr

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > > Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise Ultra card for first use. > > used MAKEDEV to create /dev/hde > > when I did 'cfdisk /dev/hde' I got "no partition table or unknown > signature on partition table" > > um... does that sound at all right? cfd

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Mike Dresser
> man cfdisk reports a bug: it doesn't support multiple disks; it may possibly > have a size limitation also. > > ben I've partitioned 120 gig drives with cfdisk, so it's good to at least that point. In this case, it seems to be an empty partition table, and cfdisk -z should fix that -- To UNS

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, ben wrote: > man cfdisk reports a bug: it doesn't support multiple disks; it may possibly > have a size limitation also. Just thought of something, perhaps that means you can't do cfdisk /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd on a nice new collection of disks? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Elizabeth Barham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 8:01 AM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Trying to ready a 60g dri

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:33 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > On Tuesday 04 June 2002 04:21 am, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > [snip] > > > > now, the 'hde' stuff is new this login, which is nice... means I did at > &

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Scott Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 07:21, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > > > Let me clarify > > > > I have one hard drive, 2g. It's almost full. The well

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:21 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > > > "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Mike Dresser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > > man cfdisk reports a bug: it doesn't support multiple disks; it may possibly > > have a size limitation

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Mike Dresser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alice M. Pinard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 5:15 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Alice M. Pinard wrote: > > > > > Trying to ready a 60g drive on a Promise U

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread prover
From: "Mike Dresser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 5:35 PM Subject: Re: Q: cfdisk error > > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, ben wrote: > > > man cfdisk reports a bug: it doesn't support multiple disk

Re: Q: cfdisk error

2002-06-04 Thread ben
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