Jorge Luis wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson: >> Jorge Luis wrote: >>> Barring a very lucky attempt to fdisk the drive, I'm afraid I'm pretty much >>> screwed. I believe the drive failed when I bailed out of a GRUB configuration >>> in the middle of the operation. I hope I didn't damage any of the drive's >>> native electronics or the resident software that's written to a small hidden >>> partition. >>> >> Grub will not damage the drive electronics, or wipe out any firmware >> the drive may have. (Accessing the firmware requires special >> commands.) Now, you may have wiped out the partition table, and boot >> sector. This would not prevent you from using fdisk or parted on the >> drive. >> >> Fdisk may have problems with the size of the drive. (Look at the >> bugs section of the fdisk man page...) It does not do well with >> large partitions. You are better off using parted. > > Nothing detects the drive, whether connected via the USB converter or plugged > into the computer's EIDE ribbon cables. Same story with parted, gparted, > fdisk, et al.--they simply don't see the drive. I don't think there's any way > to restore the partition table. dmesg and the kernel messages log seem to > indicate that the drive is there (see previous posts), but I can't work with > it unless the drive is registered with the system. > > The drive can be jumpered to set the capacity limit to a size that shouldn't > make for any problems with legacy software. It doesn't make a difference. > I'd guess my partition table is hosed. > > TIA, > > JL > What happens if you run "fdisk /dev/sdd" or "parted /dev/sdd"? (You have to run them as root...) Do they produce an error message, or do they just not show a partition table? The fix for a "hosed" partition table is to use fdisk or parted to create a new one. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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