Re: ANS 500 experience


Lewis Johnson (ljohnson@direct.ca)
Tue, 29 Sep 98 12:42:54 -0800


Hi there,

>Ethernet works. Now all I need is to figure out how to reformat and
>partition the hard drive that came in the ANS 500 (I don't have any
>other fastwide scsi machines) - pdisk doesn't like it, since it has no A/UX
>formatting.

The way I got around this on my ANS 700 was to use "pdisk -i", then to
select the internal drive (/dev/sda1) and intialize the partion table.
For some reason this works but "pdisk /dev/sda1" would get the wrong
drive specications (ie sector size =1 byte).

Good luck,

Lewis



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