From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 29 4: 0: 1 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 1AF2A37B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 04:00:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from postfix.fh-schmalkalden.de (postfix.fh-schmalkalden.de [194.94.30.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D69543EC2 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 04:00:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wds_de@yahoo.de) Received: from smtp.fh-schmalkalden.de (viruswall [194.94.30.51]) by postfix.fh-schmalkalden.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8D6558003; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:59:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from yahoo.de (ipgraf03.informatik.fh-schmalkalden.de [212.201.64.115]) by smtp.fh-schmalkalden.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30ABA41300; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:59:56 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3DE756BB.58A8CFAE@yahoo.de> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:59:55 +0100 From: Falko Meyer Organization: FH Schmalkalden/Germany, dep. of computer science X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-5SGI_137 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Setient , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 433 au References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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