9.1 Gbyte SCSI Drive

Ethan Benson erbenson at alaska.net
Fri Apr 27 08:12:18 EST 2001


On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:00:44PM -0400, Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
> 
> As long as you don't try to make it with pdisk, which claims all disks
> without an existing valid Apple partition map are 512.0 GB.

there is a workaround for that, just tell it how many blocks the disk
has, this is discussed in my mac-fdisk-basics doc at
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc and
http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/

> parted (or Drive Setup) should work fine.

parted is fine. Drive setup is evil.  

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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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