Welcome to LQ!
Just because you're a Slacker ....
Can you give me the output of:
dmesg | grep -i ata (as user)
fdisk -l (as root)
mount (as user)
df -h (as user)
cat /etc/fstab (as user)
uname -a (as user)
cat /etc/slackware-version (as user)
And for all that output, to make it look like this:
Code:
mingdao@silas:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 5.6G 1.9G 3.8G 33% /
/dev/sda7 5.6G 2.4G 3.2G 43% /usr
/dev/sda8 19G 12G 7.1G 63% /home
/dev/sdb6 5.6G 3.1G 2.6G 55% /US_root
/dev/sdb7 9.4G 5.8G 3.7G 62% /US_home
/dev/sdb8 28G 14G 15G 48% /US_network
/dev/sda1 15G 7.0G 7.7G 48% /WinXP
/dev/sdb1 5.6G 5.2G 428M 93% /US_WinXP
/dev/sdb2 9.4G 6.7G 2.7G 72% /US_Shared
/dev/sdb9 19G 16G 2.9G 85% /US_fileshare
/dev/sda2 19G 11G 8.2G 57% /Shared
none 1.1G 0 1.1G 0% /dev/shm
192.168.1.11:/home 28G 8.5G 20G 31% /serverhome
192.168.1.11:/backup 233G 215G 19G 93% /server1
192.168.1.11:/backup2
233G 202G 32G 87% /server2
Put [_code] without the underscore in front of it, and [_/code] without the underscore behind it.
And fwiw, "cfdisk" doesn't format, it manipulates the partition table.
The command "mkfs <parameters>" will build a Linux file system on a device.
And I'd recommend the command "dd" for converting and formatting according to the operands.
So, along with that output, let us know what you want to do with this disk.
Thanks!
