Hi All,

I have added a second black (new) hard drive to a customer's server
for use as backup (removalbe sata sleeve). I registers as /dev/sdc

I must have the disk removed at boot or the machine times
out trying to boot up.  So, I have it hot swapped into the system.

The disk is a Toshiba HDD MG03ACA400 4TB SATA 6Gb/s

Problem.  No one can work on the disk:

# ls -al /dev/sdc*
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 32 Jun 30 10:31 sdc

# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdc: No medium found

# gdisk /dev/sdc
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.6
Problem opening /dev/sdc for reading! Error is 123.

gparted: doesn't show up on its list of devices


What now?   I could boot into Fedora off a Live USB, but
I am not physically at the system.  (I am remoted in with
xRDP.)


Many thanks,
-T


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