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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 01:08:19
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b1002071646i3482115cvcafd92f3f80e1302@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk? by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > Hello again List,
3 >
4 > $ sudo  fdisk -l
5 >
6 > Unable to seek on /dev/sda
7 >
8 > What am I to make of this? The system runs ok, but apparently the
9 > underlying disk subsystem isn't happy. This box has only the one disk at
10 > the moment. Google doesn't help.
11 >
12 > The box is a new Armari system with an Asus P7P55D motherboard and a
13 > Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB SATA II hdd.
14 >
15 > --
16 > Rgds
17 > Peter.
18 >
19 >
20 Very strange.
21
22 What's in dmesg when the machine boots? Is it possible an older driver
23 got loaded and it's showing up as hda instead of sda? I found that on
24 one of my machines recently.
25
26 - Mark

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk? Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] When is a disk not a disk? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>