Re: SanDisk SDCFB 48 Partition Table

[Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>]

Bastien CAZENAVE <bastien.cazenave@agisphere.com> writes:

> and the 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1' command issues the
> following error message:
> 
> hda:hda: read_intr: error=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
> Error }
> hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=0, sector=0
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:00, sector 0
>  unable to read partition table
> hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> dd: /dev/hda1: No space left on device
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }

Are you trying to zero the partition table?  If so, I'm pretty sure
you wanna write to /dev/hda not /dev/hda1.

> Is it a hardware problem (though it worked fine with the old FAT16
> slice) ?

Its definately something between your hardware and the kernel.  In
dbootstrap, we do have a case where we deal with invalid partition
tables.  I guess you could grub through the source, there.


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