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[Jim Varnum <jimv AT drizzle.com>]

Hi Folks,

Sorry if this was solved and I missed it...

cfdisk is definitely confused by an unpartitioned drive because it
tries to read the partition table BEFORE doing anything else. If you
start it with the '-z' option, cfdisk will assume a zero partition
table and not try to read it first....That should solve the problem.

caveat: I know nothing about scsi drives but i assume this applies.

Take care 

Jim

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:04:11 -0500
Sindi Keesan wrote:

> So I assumed someone had low-level formatted the drive without then 
> partitioning it, and I tried to partition it with cfdisk:
> FATAL ERROR:  Bad signature on partition table.
> A lot of web research revealed that cfdisk cannot handle a drive that
> has not already been partitioned to start with.  Maybe someone used
> the scsi utility to low-level format the drive.