[parisc-linux] Can't write to hard drives on a K200

[Joe Emenaker]

Joel Soete wrote:
>> Hrmmm.... so maybe the disks are read-only somehow, right? Well then 
>> how come I can dd like so:
>>
>>   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bsQ2 count
>>
>> That works fine. So.... anybody have any idea what's going on?
> If that doesn't matter to completely erase your disk try the same cmdl 
> without count param, i.e.
>     dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bsQ2
Well, I did the entire drive with:
   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bsQ2 count countƒ88314
and that worked fine.

I also tried your
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bsQ2k
and that worked too (8192 records in, 8192 records out).

So... dd works, (c)fdisk doesn't. I guess I could just get someone to 
partition a blank hd just the way I want and then send me their 
partition table (dd if=/dev/sdX bsQ2 count=1 | gzip -9 | mail ....), 
then I could dd it on this end and I'd be all set, huh?

Well, there's another option. I could plug the drives into a SCSI card 
on a PC... but I've tried that, and I can't get that to work. If someone 
wants to help me with *that*, I'd appreciate that as well, since I 
clearly don't understand all of the intricacies of SCSI, because I 
couldn't get the PC to recognize the drive(s). I *think* it had to do 
with the drives being (apparently) "single-ended"... but I don't know.

- Joe
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