Betr.: [parisc-linux] Formatting Scsi disks

[Jurriaan Kalkman]

>I had an odd thing happen.....
>
>i took a disk out of a 712 & had it in a mac for a while
>when i put it back into the 712, & tried to put linux back on it, it got =
as
>far as fdisk which then said that it couldnt write a partition table to =
it
>
>the disk still works in the mac - am i missing something daft here ?
>
>the search command from the boot console on the 712 sees the disk
>the kernel sees & correctly identifies the disk
>
>just wont partition it
>
>
>any ideas?
>
try zeroing out the first few blocks:

dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/offending_scsi_drive bs=3D512 count=3D4

(think if you need a backup before you do this!)

Good luck,
Jurriaan