Is pdisc hiding from me?

Orion Buckminster Montoya

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Aug 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/20/00

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Craig Hagerman writes:

> If I type "pdisc"
> at the prompt it returns something like
> bash : unknown command
> Same thing for "fdisc" by the way.

Erm, are you, in fact, typing "pdisc"? The program is "pdisk", with a "k", though in bash if you type "pdi<TAB>" it should autocomplete to the correct name, if you're root. This might also solve your problem with the rpm queries.

> Meanwhile on the Mac OS side, pdisc says it can't open any files. (ie.
> pdisk: can't open file '/dev/ata0.0')

On my machine, my ata drive is known as '/dev/hda'; otherwise, I don't know what the problem might be.

O.

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Michael A. Peters

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Aug 20, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/20/00

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Try pdisk, not pdisc

>Hello,
>
>I have not been able to use pdisc from within Linux and am wondering if
>anyone can explain why. If I type "pdisc"

>at the prompt it returns something like
>bash : unknown command
>Same thing for "fdisc" by the way.

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K Hanai

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Aug 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/21/00

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From: "Craig Hagerman" <cr...@osa.att.ne.jp>

> I have not been able to use pdisc from within Linux and am wondering if
> anyone can explain why. If I type "pdisc"
> at the prompt it returns something like
> bash : unknown command
> Same thing for "fdisc" by the way.

?? No body can do pdisc, I beleive. pdisk is correct command.

hope this helps,
kaz

Craig Hagerman

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Aug 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/21/00

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Hello,

I have not been able to use pdisc from within Linux and am wondering if
anyone can explain why. If I type "pdisc"
at the prompt it returns something like
bash : unknown command
Same thing for "fdisc" by the way.

I figured this meant that pdisc hadn't been installed (I did a prett
standard install from the LinuxPPC 2K disc). So I tried to install the rpm
from the 2K disc. The console responded by telling me that it was already
installed. However when I used the "-q" option to see what version of pdisc
is already installed it tells me that pdisc is not installed. Strange. I
even tried the "--force" option to install pdisc-0.7-2 again. It seems to be
installing OK but when I checked after I was again told pdisc was not
installed. Nor can anything matching *pdisc* be found. Strange.

Meanwhile on the Mac OS side, pdisc says it can't open any files. (ie.
pdisk: can't open file '/dev/ata0.0')

Any idea where I am going wrong with all of this?

Craig Hagerman

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Aug 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/21/00

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Thanks for the correction on pdisc vs. pdisk. Now I can use it with no
trouble.