Re: Fdisk

["Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 22:38 -0600, Robert Citek wrote:
> On Mar 30, 2006, at 9:33 PM, Ray Holtz wrote:
> > I am trying to get a Seagate 160GB EIDE drive in a Kingwin TL-35USBI
> > external drive enclosure (USB2) working.  The drive is brand new,  
> > never
> > used.  I plug it in to the computer running Fedora 4 with kernel
> > 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 (with all current updates) and get this message from
> > /var/log/messages:
> 
> Looks like a bad drive.  It happens.  But just for grins and because  
> I don't have FC4, can you try the same using Knoppix 4.0.2 CD?

Ray,

It could be a bad drive, but it could also be a faulty EIDE->USB2
converter in your external drive enclosure. Do you have another hard
drive you can use in place of the 160GB drive to check this?

-- Doc
Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL
Fedora Core 4 kernel 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 on a P-III/M IBM Thinkpad A22p
            ** Bob Costas for Baseball Commissioner **


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