Doing fdisk -l tells the same story.
Running it in Knoppix reports the hda and hdb partition tables correctly, but reports nothing for hdc.
Whereas running fdisk -l in e.g. Red Hat or Mandrake reports all the hda, hdb, and hdc tables.
(As an aside; Mandrake and Red Hat fdisk use different device terminology:-
- Red Hat uses /dev/hd[a or b or c]<number>
- Mandrake uses /dev/ide/host0/bus[0 or 1]/target[0 or 1]/lun0/part<number> ).
Incidentally, I have Partition Magic, and this reports No Errors for all drives.
Ho hum, I'll carry on investigating.
Thanks for the response .