Subject: Re: Disk Formatter for Quantum!?
To: #hea <hea@ix.netcom.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/01/1998 00:54:12
#hea wrote:
> 
> >From discussion in port-mac68k on 12/30/97:
> >>> I've finally got my quantum LP520S HD working with my Mac Classic II 
> thanks to a
> >>> macos utility called Spot On, which installs a experimental driver for it. 
> The
> >>> problem is that Apple HD Set-Up doesn't recognize the driver and 
> therefore,my
> >>> new scsi drive, and I can't make any partitions on the disk. Where can I
> >>> download an other HD partitioner from the net or how can I make HD Setup
> >>> recognize my new quantum?
> >> 
> >> The last time I used Spot On, I thought it was able to partition drives. If
> >> so, why are you trying to use HD Setup? Just make MacOS partitions, and use
> >> Mkfs to turn them into the needed NetBSD partitions.
> >
> >you can do that? just make hfs partitions ahave Mkfs turn them into NetBSD
> >partitions? last time i tried this (accidently), Mkfs crashed. is there a
> >new version of Mkfs that lets you do this?
> 
> Actually, I think the utility you need is pdisk.  Drive Setup (or 
> whatever) can create partitions of the proper size, and then pdisk can 
> convert them to the proper partition type.

Are you using Linux or something?  There isn't any pdisk here for
NetBSD/mac68k......

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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