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- From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
- Subject: Re: fdisk with SCSI problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.183411.20400@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
- Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
- References: <1992Dec28.104818.20871@walter.cray.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 18:34:11 GMT
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- rsocia@alberti.cray.com (Rick Socia) writes:
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- >I booted the SLS 0.98.5 disks, and was in the process of trying to use the
- >fdisk supplied to create some partitions. However, when invoked, fdisk
- >responds with "unable to read /dev/hda". Does any one know why?
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- >My Adaptec 1542B (3.10) and my Quantum 80MB disk are recognized at boot up.
- ^^^^^^^
- This means you have SCSI disks.
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- Fdisk defaults to /dev/hda what is the first standard(!) disk.
- You have to enter "fdisk /dev/sda" to process the first SCSI disk.
- (/dev/sdb for the second one).
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