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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: fdisk with SCSI problem
- Message-ID: <BzzMqF.6rq@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <1992Dec28.104818.20871@walter.cray.com> <BzzGJ4.F7s@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:08:39 GMT
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- In article <BzzGJ4.F7s@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec28.104818.20871@walter.cray.com> rsocia@alberti.cray.com (Rick Socia) writes:
- >>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?
- >>
- >>My Adaptec 1542B (3.10) and my Quantum 80MB disk are recognized at boot up.
- >>I do know the the IRQ is set for Adaptec's default value (11?) and not the
- >>default MFM value (?). any ideas?
- >
- >Please POST this one! I need to know too.
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- You need to use ``fdisk /dev/sda''. /dev/hda is always an IDE disk,
- and this is the default.
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- -Eric
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- Eric Youngdale
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