fdisk unable to read /dev/sda

frankie_DJ · 09-08-2005, 08:10 PM

Hi everyone,

I have Slackware 10 currently installed, and I am trying to install Slackware 10.1 from scratch. I have Seagate SCSI hard drive. I want to repartition my HD so I type

Code:

fdisk /dev/sda

but I get an error

Code:

unable to read /dev/sda

I also trie /dev/sdc without any succes. I tried two kernels: bare.i and scsi.s,
and get the same error.
I don't get any output at all when I type fdisk -l. I can't give you entire dmesg output here cause I am typing from XP box, but I tried:

Code:

dmesg|grep SCSI

and have only one line of output:

SCSI subsystem driver REvision: 1.00

I don't remember having this problem when I installed Slack10.0.

Any ideas? Thanks.

frankie_DJ · 09-08-2005, 08:44 PM

Never mind. I managed to get it detected with adaptec.s kernel.