SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

[Gary Stainburn]

On Thursday 24 June 2010 13:51:29 Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:11 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > [root at dcomp5 ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb
> >
> > Unable to read /dev/sdb
>
> Should it be sdb?  Try "fdisk -l" to list all the drives it finds.
>
> --
> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
> read messages from the public lists.

[root at dcomp5 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x926c926c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       14023   112639716    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           14024       14087      512000   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           14087       14215     1024000   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4           14215       30402   130022400    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           14215       30402   130021376   83  Linux
[root at dcomp5 ~]# uname -a
Linux dcomp5.ringways.co.uk 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.i686.PAE #1 SMP Fri Jun 11 
09:42:24 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root at dcomp5 ~]# 

Also found in dmesg: (full file available at 
http://www.stainburn.com/dmesg.txt )

scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access                                    PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 
CCS
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0xffffffff as device size
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 4294967296 512-byte logical blocks: (2.19 TB/2.00 TiB)
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0xffffffff as device size
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: unknown partition table
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0xffffffff as device size
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk



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