I've just tried to hook up my new IBM drive, and when I try to use cfdisk
on it I get:
FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table
Press any key to exit cfdisk
And on fdisk I get:
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF
disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won't be recoverable.
I tried writing this "new DOS disklabel" to disk but this didn't fix
things.
I wonder whether it is because these new IBM drives are ATA/100 rather
than ATA/66. Could this be the problem? I am running kernel version
2.4.0-test9 with ATA-2 support built in. And I have util-linux version
2.10o-1 installed which is the latest I think.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mark.
P.S. Could you please cc any replies directly to me as I currently cannot
subscribe to the mailing list.
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