From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:12:18 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: 9.1 Gbyte SCSI Drive Message-ID: <20010426141218.B16008@plato.local.lan> References: <200104260559.HAA00741@piglet.grunz.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1" In-Reply-To: ; from hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:00:44PM -0400 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:00:44PM -0400, Hollis R Blanchard wrote: >=20 > As long as you don't try to make it with pdisk, which claims all disks > without an existing valid Apple partition map are 512.0 GB. there is a workaround for that, just tell it how many blocks the disk has, this is discussed in my mac-fdisk-basics doc at http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc and http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/ > parted (or Drive Setup) should work fine. parted is fine. Drive setup is evil. =20 --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline --OwLcNYc0lM97+oe1-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/