a ton of questions

[Gregory Nowak]

Kirk,

I did the following. I ran fdisk with /dev/hda, which is my boot drive, and
got what you said I should get. Then, I loaded a zipdisk into hdb, and ran
fdisk on it with the same result. Then I loaded a CD into hdc which is my
cd-rom drive, and got the same thing with the message that I couldn't
rewrite partitions on this drive which is what I was expecting. Then I
loaded a CD into hdd, my cd-writer, and got the same messages as with hdc.
This only leaves hde, which linux isn't seeing. I ran fdisk /dev/hde, and it
said it couldn't open the drive which I was expecting.

----- Original Message -----
From: Kirk Wood <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: a ton of questions


> Gregory,
>
> Try running this as an experiment:
> fdisk /dev/hdc
> The ideal is that you recieve a message "Command (m for help):" If you get
> this, then you are able to speak to the drive. This has been the defining
> method for me though there may be other/better ways. If you get this far
> you can enter "p" and it will list the partitions it sees.
>
> I would say to keep in mind there could be many other reasons beside
> hardware for your not being able to "see" the drive. In fact, that is the
> last guess. The ATA66 specification and all others SHOULD fall back to the
> older specifications when need be. In fact, when you first boot in Windows
> it is using the bios to read the drive. If you can boot to DOS mode and
> see your drive it is very unlikely that the hardware is the problem. More
> likely is that somewhere you have software translation on the drive.
>
> =======
> Kirk Wood
> Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
>
> Cluelessness
> There are no stupid questions, but there are a lot of
> inquisitive idiots
>
>
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