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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Formatting Scsi disks 
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Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 21:10:09 -0600
From: Grant Grundler <grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com>
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"James S" wrote:
> 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?

hmm...
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=64k count=10
reboot and then try to partition it.

I'm guessing the partition tool does not know the current partition scheme
(or maybe just thinks it does).

grant