Re: Can't get new IBM 15G ATA/100 drive to work!

[Jarek Wencel <jarek@spider.pl>]

Mark Phillips wrote:
> 
> I've just tried to hook up my new IBM drive, and when I try to use cfdisk
> on it I get:
> 
> FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table
>                           Press any key to exit cfdisk
> 
> And on fdisk I get:
> 
> Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF
> disklabel
> Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
> until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
> content won't be recoverable.
> 
> I tried writing this "new DOS disklabel" to disk but this didn't fix
> things.
> 
> Any ideas?

I had the same problem with Segate Baracuda, you should write empty
partition table in fdisk, after if cfdisk will be ready to work (this is
rather software problem)
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