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02-24-2005, 12:06 PM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 65
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hda? sda? what do i have?
Hi,
Just got a new server and need to make partitions...
Writing:
fdisk /dev/hda
will give the message "will not be able to write to the partition table" and
fdisk /dev/sda
dosnt work for some reason... (I got SCSI disk)
How do i find out what to use??
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02-24-2005, 12:13 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Seattle
Distribution: Slackware ?-14.1
Posts: 1,029
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02-24-2005, 12:28 PM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 65
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not really.. not sure what my HD is called...?
just noticed that "hda" is my CDrom...
how do i find out what my HD is called?
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02-24-2005, 12:44 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Somerset, England
Distribution: Slackware 10.2, Slackware 10.0, Ubuntu 9.10
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If you're using SCSI disks then it's /dev/sdx
Try:
hdparm -i /dev/sda
hdparm -i /dev/sdb
etc...
and see what it tells you about your drives
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02-24-2005, 12:45 PM
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Registered: Aug 2003
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo 64
Posts: 383
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boot knoppix and see what it lists in fstab, always the best bet i find.
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02-24-2005, 01:04 PM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 65
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i tried writing
hdparm -i /dev/sda
hdparm -i /dev/sdb
hdparm -i /dev/sdc
hdparm -i /dev/sdd
hdparm -i /dev/sde
.....
all the letters on my keybord and i only get "No such file or directory" 
How do i book knoppix? i dont have an OS installed yet... |
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02-24-2005, 01:04 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Seattle
Distribution: Slackware ?-14.1
Posts: 1,029
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what is the error you get when you type
fdisk /dev/sda
also, are these disks in a RAID?
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02-24-2005, 01:08 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 65
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Writing fdisk /dev/sda i get "Unable to open /dev/sda"
If i type
ls /dev/sd*
I get "No such file or directory"...
Whats a RAID?
Last edited by nr5; 02-24-2005 at 01:13 PM.
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02-24-2005, 01:12 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Seattle
Distribution: Slackware ?-14.1
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sounds to me like your SCSI card isn't recognized by the kernel so the drives aren't being found.
what linux ditribution are you trying to install, and what kernel does it have?
and what SCSI card do you have?
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02-24-2005, 01:18 PM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 65
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im trying to install Gentoo 2004.3, im using the livecd so im not sure what kernel im using...
im using a SCSI Ultra 320 hard drive with Adaptec U320 SCSI controller...
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02-24-2005, 05:21 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Seattle
Distribution: Slackware ?-14.1
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ah gentoo the next best thing since windoze.
sorry but i have no clue what kernel they use.
if you boot with their live cd and it can't find your drives, my assumption is you should go to www.gentoo.org and post on their forum, unless someone else here has a clue. |
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02-24-2005, 06:39 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Planet Earth
Distribution: Slackware, LFS
Posts: 561
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Look at the dmesg output, ie run "dmesg | less" or "dmesg | more" from a command prompt, and see if the kernel is seeing and intializing your SCSI controller and drives. If it's not then the kernel most likely doesn't have the right drivers for the SCSI card compiled into it. So you'd need a kernel that does or else provide them as modules.
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02-24-2005, 06:50 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Seattle
Distribution: Slackware ?-14.1
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or use slackware
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