xRe: scsi-partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Michael B. Taylor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:25:11PM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > I have no idea why you are getting the error. Have you tried > the "fdisk" command? I have seen it work in cases where cfdisk > fails. Yes, first try fdisk. Sometimes a new disk wi

Re: scsi partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
fdisk will complain about not being able to read the partition table if you have scsi bus bogosity. check dmesg for scsi parity errors.

Re: scsi-partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:25:11PM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > > - cfdisk on /dev/sdb tells me: > FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table > Press any key to exit cfdisk > > how do I proceed if I want to partition sdb? > > I have no idea why yo

Re: scsi-partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 03:25:11PM +0200, Gerald Richter wrote: > Hello Debianists! [ snip ] > how do I proceed if I want to partition sdb? use fdisk instead of cfdisk. The interface isn't as pretty, but it works. 'h' gives you help :) -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is

scsi-partitioning

2001-10-03 Thread Gerald Richter
Hello Debianists! have a question regarding the access of a scsi-disk... dmesg shows: sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 2, device 4, function 0 sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...(fix-up) sym53c8xx: 53c895 detected sym53c895-0: rev 0x2 on pci bus 2 device 4 function 0 irq 11 sym53c895-0: ID 7, Fast-40,