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05-20-2006, 07:50 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2006
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 2
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can't format my hard drive with fdisk
I can't format my hard drive with fdisk. I have a SCSI hard drive, so I should be able to use /dev/sda. Well, sda isn't even in the /dev directory, so I can't format my hard drive. I'm using Slackware Linux 10.0, this worked find a year ago, now it doesn't want to work. What is a solution???
My email address is dabauer@dabauer.us, please email me.
Last edited by davidabauer; 05-20-2006 at 07:51 PM.
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05-20-2006, 09:15 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Paris
Distribution: Slackware forever.
Posts: 2,534
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Boot with a Slack cd (why not try the 10.2  ) and use the scsi.i kernel.
You wanna install a new system? Did you use this drive actually? Give us more info. |
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05-20-2006, 09:51 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Seymour, Indiana
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
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Is the module for the scsi controller loaded?
What is your controller brand and model?
Post output of command lsmod.
Brian1
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05-21-2006, 07:03 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2006
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 2
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scsi.i doesn't even exist
I used adaptec.s and that worked fine. Now, linux won't
run. When I reboot it just comes back with "Press a key to reboot", so it doesn't even work.
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Originally Posted by Linux.tar.gz
Boot with a Slack cd (why not try the 10.2 ) and use the scsi.i kernel.
You wanna install a new system? Did you use this drive actually? Give us more info. |
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05-21-2006, 10:18 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Paris
Distribution: Slackware forever.
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Oops i meant scsi.s
You have a list of kernel at boot, when you push F3.
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