I have a HD around that I am trying to get set up to use in another system. The problem I am having is with the partition table. If I wipe the table, then restart when Linux recognizes the drive and reads the partions, it prints out partitions, when the drive is supposed to be blank.
In addition, if I layout the drive out with a few Primary and logical partions, it gets recognized as having the structure I gave it, and then a bunch of primary partitions after that, up to hda16! So when I should have, p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 >, I actually see: p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 > p6 p p7 p9 p12 p13 p14 p15 p16. That isn't exact output, but it is similar, in cluding the reading of 'p' without a number and the skipping of some partition numbers. Note than none of 'ghost' partions show up in any partition program I have used, including DiskDrake, fdisk, parted, and cfdisk. Is there some thing more low level I should use to wipe the disk? Or should I try and ignore them and hope they don't cause problems? I didn't want to waste my time if I was going to have to wipe the drive, so I didn't get very far, but it does seem I am able to create file systems and mount the partitions I create, while the 'ghost' partitions spew a bunch of errors if I try these operations. Any ideas? Spencer _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
