[plug] partitioning question

[Lawrence Abbott]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>> 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
>
>
Thanks Craig. Problem now  solved.  dmesg output  got my brain 
refunctioning. A quick edit of grub.conf was all that was needed (I 
shifted  my cdrom to fit the hard drive).

Lawrie Abbott