stewart walker (swalker@mta.ca)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:19:00 -0300
>Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:23:37 -0400
>From: Dave Beck <dave@arginine.umdnj.edu>
>To: stewart walker <swalker@mta.ca>
>Subject: Re: format HD questions
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>See.. this is some wacky issue I had to deal with.. Luckily I found a cable
>that allowed me to (as ungodly as it sounds) attach a fast wide drive directly
>to a SCSI 2 (DB 25 pin external mac SCSI) port. Then, using a patched version
>of Apple HD SC SCSI setup I formated/intialized the disk to be an apple drive,
>then I put the drive back into the ANS and used linux's pdisk to remove
>the HFS
>partitions and put on the ext2fs bad boys...
>
>NOW.. once all this had been done (and because all my ANS's have the same 4gig
>seagate baracuda model) I dd'ed off the first 512k of the disk and then, when
>I wanted to partition a new (old AIX formated drive) linux drive I used that
>dd image and via another dd slaped it onto the front of the new disk...
>
>So in short: I used a mac to make an original partition table for that
>size/model
>drive... then I used dd to make imagesa of the parition table to slap onto new
>drives of the same size/model.
>
>Yes.. it is ugly..
>
>Quoting stewart walker (swalker@mta.ca):
>> I have the ANS 500 working OK.
>> I installed linuxppc on a 7300, then replaced vmlinux, then put it on the
>> internal bus.
>>
>> How do I reformat/partition the existing fast/wide SCSI hard drive that
>> came with the ANS500 to do an install on it?
>>
>> installer.coff doesn't work, No other machines with fast/wide SCSI hard
>>disks.
>>
>
>--
>Dave Beck
>dave@arginine.umdnj.edu Sites of interest (set 3):
>Computer Science and Biology
>http://selene.biochem.uga.edu/tutorial/
>Drexel University, Philadelphia PA http://www.cold.org/
>
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