From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 1 16:10:22 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 C877337B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 16:10:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from reva.sixgirls.org (reva.sixgirls.org [66.250.131.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3969343EB2 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 16:10:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setient@reva.sixgirls.org) Received: from localhost (setient@localhost) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB209mk24645; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:09:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:09:48 -0500 (EST) From: Setient To: Falko Meyer Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 433 au In-Reply-To: <3DE756BB.58A8CFAE@yahoo.de> Message-ID: 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 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. 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