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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Jim Varnum wrote:

> 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.

That might work on the drives that were never partitioned, but I also have 
one mystery drive which is currently working fine with BL2 and BL3, and 
also says I have a bad signature on partition table.  I tried cfdisk -z on 
this and got some messages which I posted a while back.  I will try again 
on the more recent, unpartitioned, drives.  Thanks.

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

Once you load the drivers they seem to act the same (sda1 vs hda1).

> 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.
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