From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3AEEF758.FEF4A65D@denise.shiny.it> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 19:50:16 +0200 From: Giuliano Pochini MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hollis R Blanchard Cc: 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: > > [root@Jay linux]# /sbin/pdisk -i > > Top level command (? for help): e /dev/sdb > > Edit /dev/sdb - > > Command (? for help): i > > map already exists > ^^^ seems to suggest that you did not use dd to zero your partition map > before trying this experiment. [root@Jay Giu]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1048576 count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out [root@Jay Giu]# /sbin/pdisk -i Top level command (? for help): e Name of device: /dev/sdb pdisk: No valid block 1 on '/dev/sdb' Edit /dev/sdb - Command (? for help): I A physical block is 1 bytes: 2048 A logical block is 512 bytes: 2048 size of 'device' is 310352 blocks (2048 byte blocks): new size of 'device' is 310352 blocks (2048 byte blocks) Command (? for help): s 3 Command (? for help): p Partition map (with 2048 byte blocks) on '/dev/sdb' #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 3 @ 1 2: Apple_Free Extra 310348 @ 4 (606.1M) Device block size=2048, Number of Blocks=310352 (606.2M) DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Command (? for help): r 2 1 Command (? for help): p Partition map (with 2048 byte blocks) on '/dev/sdb' #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_Free Extra 310348 @ 4 (606.1M) 2: Apple_partition_map Apple 3 @ 1 Device block size=2048, Number of Blocks=310352 (606.2M) DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Command (? for help): w Writing the map destroys what was there before. Is that okay? [n/y]: y The partition table has been altered! Command (? for help): q Top level command (? for help): q [root@Jay Giu]# /sbin/mke2fs -b 2048 -m 0 /dev/sdb1 mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=2048 (log=1) Fragment size=2048 (log=1) 77824 inodes, 310348 blocks 0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 19 block groups 16384 blocks per group, 16384 fragments per group 4096 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 16384, 49152, 81920, 114688, 147456 Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done [root@Jay Giu]# It works fine. Are you sure your HD is ok ? Bye. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/