Hello Debianists! have a question regarding the access of a scsi-disk... dmesg shows:
sym53c8xx: at PCI bus 2, device 4, function 0 sym53c8xx: setting PCI_COMMAND_PARITY...(fix-up) sym53c8xx: 53c895 detected sym53c895-0: rev 0x2 on pci bus 2 device 4 function 0 irq 11 sym53c895-0: ID 7, Fast-40, Parity Checking sym53c895-0: SCSI bus mode change from 80 to 80. scsi0 : sym53c8xx-1.7.1-20000726 scsi : 1 host. Vendor: COMPAQ Model: BD009222C7 Rev: B016 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SAH0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total. sym53c895-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 31) SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17773524 [8678 MB] [8.7 GB] sym53c895-0-<2,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 31) SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17916240 [8748 MB] [8.7 GB] - cfdisk on /dev/sda works fine. - cfdisk on /dev/sdb tells me: FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table Press any key to exit cfdisk how do I proceed if I want to partition sdb? thanks for hints, Gerald.