A.J. Bonnema wrote:
[I already sent this somewhere, but it didn't (afaics), so I'll repeat it here]My first impression is that windows did not put a partition table on the drive, kinda like a floppy disk IIRC. Windows likes it, but Linux doesn't. Even though fdisk -l fails, can you use fdisk to put a single primary partition on the drive?
I found out some more from /var/log/message in reaction to 'fdisk -l
/dev/sda'. The output follows:
This is the response to 'fdisk /dev/sda' (or sda)
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: Current 00:00: sense key Not Ready
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: unable to read partition table
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
Nov 24 04:37:33 abonnema kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Any ideas?
Guus. -- A.J. Bonnema, Leiden The Netherlands, user #328198 (Linux Counter)
