From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 23:19:52 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: "Henry A. Worth" Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Install on a Pismo (going bad) Message-ID: <20000404231952.A2266@suse.de> Reply-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org References: <200004042110.OAA25686@ shell1.ncal.verio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200004042110.OAA25686@ shell1.ncal.verio.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Apr 04, Henry A. Worth wrote: > > > From: Tim Wojtulewicz > > > I've come to the decision that the hard drive is fried :(. I've > > tried formatting the drive with Drive Setup and it returns > > Initialization Failed every time. I'm glad I bought the 3 year > > warranty now. > > I suspect Drive Setup has problems with the Pismo and/or OS/9, > had same problem if I selected the option to zero the partitions. > Try without that option. I had that problem a long time ago with my 7200/90 and MkLinux or so, can't remember exactly. Drive Setup is buggy, it should be OpenSource ;) Gruss Olaf -- $ man 1 current_release BUGS Users never read manuals... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/