SATA HDD in an external case over USB - 2 partitions

[JD]

On 06/24/2010 05:51 AM, Tim was caught red-handed while writing::
> 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.
>
>    
Are you sure /dev/sdb exists?
Could it be /dev/sdc or sdd?
Do ls -l /dev/sdb
Also, sudo grep 'sd\.' /var/log/messages
to see how many drives were "probed" and attached.