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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:07:15
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b1002071727m3f50aca2q9fe003ff031552a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk? by Mark Knecht
1 On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >> Hello again List,
4 >>
5 >> $ sudo  fdisk -l
6 >>
7 >> Unable to seek on /dev/sda
8 >>
9 >> What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the
10 >> underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at
11 >> the moment. Google doesn't help.
12 >>
13 >> The box is a new Armari system with an Asus P7P55D motherboard and a
14 >> Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB SATA II hdd.
15 >>
16 >> --
17 >> Rgds
18 >> Peter.
19 >>
20 >>
21 > Very strange.
22 >
23 > What's in dmesg when the machine boots? Is it possible an older driver
24 > got loaded and it's showing up as hda instead of sda? I found that on
25 > one of my machines recently.
26 >
27 > - Mark
28 >
29 sorry to have forgotten is but simply do
30
31 df
32
33 and see what it says is mounted

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Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>