[plug] partitioning question

[Craig Ringer]

> I've just installed an old 6G disk to do some file system comparisons 
> on... and  cant see it.
> ie fdisk /dev/hdc gives
> Unable to open /dev/hdc
> I can see fat32 partition on it if I boot into win98, and its definitely 
> the master on second IDE slot.  What do I need to do?

Could your disk possibly be on an additional ATA controller (PCI, add-on 
ATA100, whatever)? If so, your drive might well be at /dev/hdg 
(Secondary master of second pair of controllers). Just a wild guess.

Please post the output of "dmesg" and "lspci" - that should help someone 
figure it out.

Craig Ringer