Re: /dev/null > /dev/sdb1 !

[paragasu <paragasu@gmail.com>]

You're going to have to provide some specifics.  What drive on what
controller?  What are the drive's capacity specs (C/H/S)?  What command
did you use to start fdisk?  What commands did you issue within fdisk?
In particular, did you create a new partition table?

--Mike Bird

this is what printed on the old hard disk

Seagate ST32122A
4092 CTL 2111MB
16 HEADS 63 SECTORS

#fdisk /dev/sdb
inside the fdisk, i did use the command p, n, t, d,a
i did delete the whole partition, create new partition and reboot the computer.
the same thing happen. same error message appear.