By viewing my Disk&File Systems in Hardy, can anyone see why one HDD is partially crippled?

[Steven Vollom]

Robert Parker wrote:
> Steven,
>
> Getting back to your OP, you said 'permission denied' I think. Maybe I 
> missed something here but I think I'd be starting with:
> sudo fdisk -l
> on the system with the 80 gig Maxtor. You will get a list of the 
> partition types on the drive.
> Then post the output of that to the list.
> BTW the option to fdisk is 'l' for lollipop not the figure 'one'. In 
> my typeface it's hard to see the difference ymmv.
>
> Bob
> -- 
> In a world without walls who needs Windows (or Gates)? Try Linux instead!
>
[sudo] password for steven:

Disk /dev/sda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x47a447a3

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1824    14651248+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1825       24792   184490460    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           16523       24792    66428775   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            1825        2006     1461852   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7            2007       16522   116599738+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xffffffff

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        2591    20812176   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            2592        2856     2128612+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3            2857        9964    57095010    5  Extended
/dev/sdb5            2857        9964    57094978+  83  Linux
steven at Studio25:~$                                  

Dear Bob,

My poor memory says I already answered this, however, it came fresh to 
my inbox, so here it is.  I copied and pasted from the shell.  I 
selected fixed width font, so I don't know why it is not aligned properly. 

Can you recognize a problem with either sda1 or sdb5?  What is sda2 all 
about.  And f W94 Ext'd (LBA)  looks like Windows 95 extended something.