Betr.: [parisc-linux] Formatting Scsi disks

Betr.: [parisc-linux] Formatting Scsi disks

[Jurriaan Kalkman]

>I had an odd thing happen.....
>
>i took a disk out of a 712 & had it in a mac for a while
>when i put it back into the 712, & tried to put linux back on it, it got =
as
>far as fdisk which then said that it couldnt write a partition table to =
it
>
>the disk still works in the mac - am i missing something daft here ?
>
>the search command from the boot console on the 712 sees the disk
>the kernel sees & correctly identifies the disk
>
>just wont partition it
>
>
>any ideas?
>
try zeroing out the first few blocks:

dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/offending_scsi_drive bs=3D512 count=3D4

(think if you need a backup before you do this!)

Good luck,
Jurriaan

[parisc-linux] Re: OT HP-UX Formatting Scsi disks

[Derek Engelhaupt]

> try zeroing out the first few blocks:
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/offending_scsi_drive bs=512 count=4

I've decided to load HP-UX on the E55 I've been playing with since
Debian doesn't work very well on it right now.  I'm sending this OT
because I need to know where dd lives on an HP-UX 11.11 box.  I'm in a
limited shell and need an absolute path to dd to get it to accomplish
the above.  It's so limited it won't even give me the ls command.  Any
of you HP-UX guys out there?  Since I'm at home I don't have access to
an HP-UX box at work.  Thanks.

derek

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Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OT HP-UX Formatting Scsi disks

[Christoph Plattner]

Hello,

I hope the status will change soon. I also have an E55
and I use it under HP-UX. But I want to switch as fast
as possible to linux.

I can use the E55 now as diskless server (!), SCSI is
not working yet. But as I mentioned, I hope this will
change very soon !!

Christoph


Derek Engelhaupt wrote:
> 
> > try zeroing out the first few blocks:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/offending_scsi_drive bs=512 count=4
> 
> I've decided to load HP-UX on the E55 I've been playing with since
> Debian doesn't work very well on it right now.  I'm sending this OT
> because I need to know where dd lives on an HP-UX 11.11 box.  I'm in a
> limited shell and need an absolute path to dd to get it to accomplish
> the above.  It's so limited it won't even give me the ls command.  Any
> of you HP-UX guys out there?  Since I'm at home I don't have access to
> an HP-UX box at work.  Thanks.
> 
> derek
> 
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Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OT HP-UX Formatting Scsi disks

[Andrew Shugg]

Derek Engelhaupt said:
> I've decided to load HP-UX on the E55 I've been playing with since
> Debian doesn't work very well on it right now.  I'm sending this OT
> because I need to know where dd lives on an HP-UX 11.11 box.  I'm in a
> limited shell and need an absolute path to dd to get it to accomplish
> the above.  It's so limited it won't even give me the ls command.  Any
> of you HP-UX guys out there?  Since I'm at home I don't have access to
> an HP-UX box at work.  Thanks.

Just how limited is this shell?  Are you just not able to see any
output?  What happens when you run '/bin/ls'?

If you can get stdout, try 'which dd' and 'find / -type f -name dd -print'
to locate the program.  I don't have an HP/UX box in front of me either,
or I would just tell you where dd lived.  =)

Andrew.

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Re: [parisc-linux] Re: OT HP-UX Formatting Scsi disks

[sven schnelle]

  Derek Engelhaupt said:

>I've decided to load HP-UX on the E55 I've been playing with since
>Debian doesn't work very well on it right now.  I'm sending this OT
>because I need to know where dd lives on an HP-UX 11.11 box.  I'm in a
[...]

hello,

on my gecko with HP-UX 10.20 it lives in /usr/bin, maybe its the same on
HP-UX 11.11.

Bye

Sven.