Re: fdisk can't see disks (Linux 2.2.7, AIC-7880)

Nicholas Tufar (nt@yargitay.gov.tr)
Sun, 2 May 1999 19:06:20 +0300 (EEST)

On Mon, 3 May 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:

> Hi. This is a new computer that I want to install Linux on, with 3 SCSI
> disk drives. No problem with the first. But I'm getting
>
> # fdisk /dev/sdb
>
> Unable to open /dev/sdb

Should be something with file permissions. Are you root? My /dev/sdb/ is

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Sep 12 1994 /dev/sdb

Nicholas

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