From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Dec 2 6:56: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4EE737B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 06:56:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from cma2600.org (h00104b2fcc85.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.198.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E52843EBE for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 06:55:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setient@reva.sixgirls.org) Received: by cma2600.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A7253155; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:55:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cma2600.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD66030; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:55:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 09:54:59 -0500 (EST) From: Ronald Cotoni X-X-Sender: setient@cma2600.org To: Jarkko Santala Cc: Falko Meyer , "" Subject: Re: 433 au In-Reply-To: <20021202092405.I33855-100000@trillian.santala.org> Message-ID: <20021202095350.I81474-100000@cma2600.org> References: <20021202092405.I33855-100000@trillian.santala.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org should i let dd finish or not? On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Jarkko Santala wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Setient wrote: > > > it has a terminator on the cable that isn't the problem it has macos > > partitions on it and it don't like reading the size therefore reporting > > it has no disk which is completely bogus i need a way to lowlevel format > > it from srm or something. > > No, do as he told below. Boot from a floppy and issue a command like this: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo > > foo begin the harddrive device. > > You can also specify bs and count if you like or just let that run for a > few seconds. Then reboot with your preferred installation media. > > What that does is clears the partitions and whatever you have on the > beginning of the disk, forcing size and all other things to be detected > properly. > > I think I used a NetBSD floppy to do this a while ago, because I couldn't > do it from a FreeBSD one or something. A bootable installation CD probably > works OK too if you have around. > > -jake > > > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Falko Meyer wrote: > > > > > Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:59:55 +0100 > > > From: Falko Meyer > > > To: Setient , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org > > > Subject: Re: 433 au > > > > > > Setient wrote: > > > > > > > > i have a scsi disk a 36 gig 10k rpm seagate cheetah it was formerly in a > > > > mac running mac linux. I try to put it in the freebsd machine then boot > > > > off cdrom but alas it comes up with unable to determin hd size then i > > > > can't go further cause it says there is no harddisk present. is there a > > > > way i can get rid of the information that is on the hd without a mac? > > > Boot a Linux Bootdisk (i usually take Slackware Boot- and Rootdisks) and > > > run dd or do a lowlevel format which should be provided by the > > > hostadapter's BIOS (on a PC). Maybe there is also a way using > > > BSD-Bootdisks. > > > > > > MfG > > > Falko Meyer > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Jarkko Santala http://www.iki.fi/~jake/ > System Administrator 2001:670:83:f08::/64 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message