[parisc-linux] scsi problems on a 720

[Riccardo Mottola]

on 10/16/03 3:05 PM, cbeerse@lycos.nl at cbeerse@lycos.nl wrote:

> I think it is due to the partitioning and formatting of the drive. The
> partition 
> table used on HP-UX differs (a lot) from the partition table used on linux.
> Therefor, an entire disk should be targeted for either linux or hp-ux. And let
> the respective OS do the initialization (partitioning and file-system).
<snip>
> 
> On linux, its `fdisk` or variants like `sfdisk` to do the partitioning. Then
> use 
> mkfs on each partition to create the filesystem. Or let the installer handle
> this.

But I did so. One disk is dedicated to HP-UX and one to linux.
I partitioned the one for linux entirely for linux (fdisk doesn't even
recognize the HP-UX partitioning scheme!)
I said I did a mediainit to prove that the disc has no damaged sectors and
that hp-ux accesses it correctly

-Ric