From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3AEA9EF3.C2B1B76B@denise.shiny.it> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 12:44:03 +0200 From: Giuliano Pochini MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hollis R Blanchard Cc: Michel Lanners , rcook@ntlug.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: 9.1 Gbyte SCSI Drive References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hollis R Blanchard wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Michel Lanners wrote: > > > > Anyway, the point was make sure you erase the PC partition map > > _completely_, with something like this: > > > > dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sd bs=512 count=10 > > > > This should scratch the first few blocks on disk, some of which are not > > touched by Mac-style partition maps, and make it possible to do a > > _clean_ Mac partition map. > > 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. Uh? version 0.7a3 (18 February 1998) [root@Jay linux]# /sbin/pdisk -i Top level command (? for help): e /dev/sdb Edit /dev/sdb - Command (? for help): i map already exists do you want to reinit? [n/y]: y A physical block is 512 bytes: 2048 A logical block is 512 bytes: 2048 size of 'device' is 555555 blocks (2048 byte blocks): 123456 new size of 'device' is 123456 blocks (2048 byte blocks) Command (? for help): Bye. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/