[linux-lvm] Unable to create a physical volume on a whole disk

["Jan H. van Gils" <JanVG Knoware NL>]

	Hi,

Thanks for reading this message.

The following is the case, I would like to create a pv on a whole disk
but pvcreate gives me the message that there is a "partition table" on
the
disk.

I removed the partition table with "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb bs=512
count=1"
The fdisk command shows me that there is no partion table but pvcreate
tells me
different.

Here is some info :

Disk Info
gw:/dev# dmesg | grep hdb
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
hdb: ST310212A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: 20005650 sectors (10243 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=19846/16/63,
UDMA(33)

Fdisk Info :

gw:/dev# fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Disk /dev/hdb: 10.2 GB, 10242892800 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19846 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk /dev/hdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Pvcreate Info :

gw:/dev# pvcreate --version
pvcreate: Logical Volume Manager 1.0.4
Heinz Mauelshagen, Sistina Software  02/05/2002 (IOP 10)

gw:/dev# pvcreate /dev/hdb

pvcreate -- device "/dev/hdb" has a partition table

Has anybody an idea on howto solve this problem.
I already rebooted the system to be sure the partition table is active.

Greetz Jan

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