[ale] Seagate Hdd Not Lining Up!?

[David A. De Graaf]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:26:12PM +0000, Marc Ferguson wrote:
> 
> I ran the fdisk too:
> 
> [root at fergatron ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb1
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb1: 320.0 GB, 320070288384 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38912 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
> [root at fergatron ~]#Â 
> 

You never run fdisk on a disk partition, always the disk itself.
Try
    fdisk -l /dev/sdb


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