unknown partition table

[Jason Spiro]

On 6/29/06, Daniel Armstrong <dwarmstrong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I have no clue. For starters: Does the disk work on other Linux
> > machines? Windows machines? (If you cannot check those: Does it work
> > when you boot off a Linux liveCD?) Also, what do you get when you run
> > gparted, gpart, sfdisk, or fdisk on the disk?
> >
>
> I have tried connecting this external drive to other Linux machines...
> same problem. Running cfdisk on the drive gives the result above...
> fdisk and QTParted show an empty drive.
>
gpart is nice, it scans the disk and figures out what the partition
table ought to be.

(I took the liberty of replying on-list even though you mailed me
offlist. Perhaps now someone else can help too.)

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