Subject: Re: unformatted scsi disk partitioning
From: Howard Turner (heturner@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 08:59:03 MST
ah, well since I work in an environment where we plug
and unplug boards into powered up chassis all the
time, I've become insensitive to many things that make
lots of people quesy.
to answer your question, I unplug the scsi cable from
the Mac, boot it, then plug the cable in.
--- Ed Jaeger <ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com> wrote:
> Forgive me, but if MacOS won't boot with the drive
> attached how can
> Drive Setup see it?
>
> Howard Turner wrote:
> >
> > MacOS won't boot with the drive attached.
> >
> > drive setup sees the drive, but since its not an
> Apple
> > drive (seagate), it won't format/partiion it.
> >
> > if I boot ydl from cd (as the install process),
> ydl
> > recognizes the drive and fdisk allows me to setup
> the
> > partitions. after I write the partion table, exit
> > fdisk, then get back into fdisk, there are exactly
> > zero partions on the disk.
> >
> > --- Ed Jaeger <ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com> wrote:
> > > Is it that
> > >
> > > 1) Drive setup does not show the drive
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > 2) Drive setup shows the drive but says it
> cannot
> > > initialize it
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > 3) Drive setup shows the drive, allows you
> to
> > > partition it, but the
> > > partitions are not actually created?
> > >
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> Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation
> ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com
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>
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