MO SCSI Drive problem

["C. Oda" <craig@example.com>]

I'm having problems with a MO drive.  I previously had it working,
but it seems to lose the partition table.  I added an ext2 filesystem
to it and it worked.  Is this necessary?  However, on my next
boot, it didn't work.  This is the error message:

ic7xxx: Target 6, channel A, now synchronous at 5.0MHz, offset(0x8).
  Vendor: DELTIS    Model: MOS321            Rev: 3.60
  Type:   Optical Device                     ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 446325 [217 MB] [0.2 GB]
sda: Write Protect is off
eth0: 3c509 at 0x220 tag 1, BNC port, address  00 a0 24 0a 4e 06, IRQ 11.
3c509.c:1.07 6/15/95 becker@example.com
Partition check:
 sda: unknown partition table
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I'm going to repartition it with fdisk.  However, this means that
I loose my data.  Am I doing something wrong?

Regards,
Craig



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