also check /proc/partitions to see what might be showing up there. Bill Warner > Am 05. Oct, 2000 schwäzte John W so: > > > Tried fdisk /dev/hda and response was could not open /dev/hda. I tried > > cfdisk and the command was not available. I don't want to reinstall > > but if I have it is no big deal. I don't understand why hdparm had > > such adverse effects on RH7.0 when it did what I wanted in 6.2. > > I'd suggest looking for an hdparm mailing list and searching it. Maybe the > same with an ext2 list. It's a great opportunity to learn a lot about > filesystems, ide disk drives and data recovery ;-). > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.Opnix.com > # Magic is science unexplained. - der.hans > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- -- Bill Warner Direct Alliance Corp. Unix/Linux Admin. From Don Harrop Fri Oct 6 20:41:33 2000 From: Don Harrop (Don Harrop) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 13:41:33 -0700 (MST) Subject: Interix Message-ID: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/default.asp Has anyone checked out this software for NT systems yet? It supposedly runs a unix shell capable of running unix programs and scripts natively on an NT box. Wonder how well it really does? Don