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Re: unable to open /dev/sda
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emanuele Buttice)
Thu Jan 30 18:18:19 1997
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 15:00:50 -0800
From: Emanuele Buttice <buttice@elecomm.net>
To: Shu De Liang <liangs@halley.syd.cqu.edu.au>
CC: scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Hi,
Usually this happens when the kernel doesn't not recognized the
controller. I got this problem when I accedently tried to boot a SCSI pc
with ide boot diskette.
Make a boot disk using the scsinet.c to boot with. I use that and I have
no problems.
Hope this helps.
> Shu De Liang wrote:
> I made the boot disk with scsi.s and
> root disk wiht color.gz. I could boot up the system. But when I try to
> fdisk the scsi hard disk. The error message is "unable to open
> /dev/sda".
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Emanuele Buttice Buttice@elecomm.net Network Analyst
Elecomm Corporation - www.elecomm.net
