[Bug 534370] [NEW] fdisk -l doesn't list damaged hdd but palimpsest does

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My PC contains a damaged hdd from which I'm rescuing data using
ddrescue. I'm doing this already for several months. Now that I updated
to ubuntu 9.10 I'm having a strange problem:

"fdisk -l" does not show the damaged hdd anymore, while palimpsest does.

Look here:

http://www2.picfront.org/token/ZiAA/2010/03/08/1781435.png

In the past I always checked if the damaged hdd is sdc by using "fdisk
-l" before using my "standard" ddrescue command (and if the hdd wasn't
listed, I could be sure that the hdd had not been found by the BIOS).

Now I'm getting the information from palimpsest, but it is strange that
"fdisk -l" doesn't show the disk and I think it must be a bug
(eventually not a very important bug, but still a bug).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Mar  8 13:18:21 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.27-14.33-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic x86_64

** Affects: util-linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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fdisk -l doesn't list damaged hdd but palimpsest does
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/534370
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