cfdisk not working (SATA issue?)

[Winston at Ubuntulinux]

On Sat, 3 Sep 2005 23:43:48 -0700
Robert Balbir-Brott <robertbb.ubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I just installed Hoary on my new IBM T43. Everything has worked as
> expected  (i.e. brilliantly), including a dual-boot with WindowsXP
> SP2. At install  time, I intentionally left some unpartitioned space
> at the end of the drive  with the intent of creating a FAT partition
> so as to be able to share  documents between Windows and Ubuntu.
> However, when I run `cfdisk', I get an  error:
> 
> FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive.
> Press any key to exit cfdisk.
> 
> This may be because the machine has a SATA hard drive, which has been 
> detected as a SCSI drive (apparently this is normal because SATA
> support in  Linux right now is.. weird).

Well, I also have SATA drive. When I do "sudo cfdisk /dev/sda" it came
out good. Did you run just "cfdisk /dev/sda", if so you need to use
"sudo".

I'm using Horay.

> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Robert Balbir-Brott

Winston