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Serious disk problem!
Name: Alexander Date: November 6, 2002 at 04:43:19 Pacific OS: Redhat 7.3 CPU/Ram: 600/256
Comment:
Help please! Just bought a new IBM 80Gb disk. Trying to fdisk it but it doest not work. fdisk reports "cant read /dev/hdf". sfdisk reports cant read sector 0. the disk works in another computer therefore I think the kernel has misunderstood the disk. What options do I have? Please help
Where did you get hdf from? It wouldn't appear as F: under windows would it? Linux and Windows driver names are completely different. (The Linux ones make more sense)
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