Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-20 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
when there is no longer anything to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:58:17 +0100 In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Ken Moffat's message of "Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:18:38 +") Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:09:21AM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Certainly, fdisk from util-linux doesn't know about mac disks, and > > I thought the same was true for cfdisk and sfdisk. Many years ago > > there was mac-fdisk, I think also known

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-17 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:09:21AM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Certainly, fdisk from util-linux doesn't know about mac disks, and > > I thought the same was true for cfdisk and sfdisk. Many years ago > > there was mac-fdisk, I think also known as

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-17 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 02:27:06PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: >> A couple of weeks ago my 400Gb SATA disk crashed. I just >> got the replacement, but I can't seem to be able to create >> a filesystem on it! >> >> This is a PPC (Pegasos), running 2.6.

Re: Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 02:27:06PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > A couple of weeks ago my 400Gb SATA disk crashed. I just > got the replacement, but I can't seem to be able to create > a filesystem on it! > > This is a PPC (Pegasos), running 2.6.15-27-powerpc (Ubuntu Dapper > v2.6.15-27.50).

Weird harddisk behaviour

2007-01-16 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
A couple of weeks ago my 400Gb SATA disk crashed. I just got the replacement, but I can't seem to be able to create a filesystem on it! This is a PPC (Pegasos), running 2.6.15-27-powerpc (Ubuntu Dapper v2.6.15-27.50). - s n i p - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cfdisk -P s /dev/sda Partition Table