[NCLUG] New 80GB maxtor won't fdisk...

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 03:41:51PM -0600, C. Michael Crosiar wrote:
>bootup Linux says it recognizes the drive on hdc, which is correct. But when
>I go to fdisk the drive I get the message "Unable to open /dev/hdc". I

I'd bet you used to have a CD burner in there on /dev/hdc.  Check your boot
file (/etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf) and look for "hdc=ide-scsi".
You probably want to remove that, otherwise you'll need to look for the
drive on /dev/sd*.

Sean
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