> then use Windows Disk Management mmc app to identify
> the disk and convert from Disk n to /dev/sd[x], where Disk 0 is
> /dev/sda, Disk 1 is /dev/sdb, etc.

A much easier (and safer!) way to do that is to

$ cat /proc/partitions

-- it'll tell you exactly which /dev/sdX to use for the physical drives, not 
guesswork required.

HTH,

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI


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