Subject: Re: unformatted scsi disk partitioning
From: Ed Jaeger (ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com)
Date: Mon Jan 03 2000 - 08:56:21 MST
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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