From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) Subject: Re: fdisk with SCSI problem Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:34:11 GMT
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.
^^^^^^^
This means you have SCSI disks.
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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