Ross:

Could you perhaps install that script onto one of your already-built 250GB drives, and run it and post the results here?

Eg. Save the script as /reinit_partition_table.sh, and upload to the player via FTP:

ftp your.players.ip.addr
(login as root, no passwd)

site rw
put reinit_partition_table.sh
chmod 755 reinit_partition_table.sh
site ro
quit

Then connect over serial, hit Control^C to get a shell prompt, and run the script:

/reinit_partition_table.sh /dev/hda

It will pretend to repartition the drive, and it will print out the results of what would have been. But it won't actually hurt anything for now.

I just want to see if the copy of fdisk on it correctly handles the 250GB drive.

Thanks