Subject: Re: question cencerning formating a drive
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Alexander Klein <Alexander.Klein@math.uni-giessen.de>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/14/2002 23:25:52
Hi,

At 22:13 Uhr +0200 14.04.2002, Voges, Arndt Georg Alexander wrote:

>my problem concerns initializing a drive. the error, apple hd sc setup gives
>me, says that there are still files in use on the disk

My first idea would be to either format the disk using another BSD-machine,
or to use a program like Suntar for the Mac to destroy the partition map by
writing some blocks of zeroes or junk directly to the disk starting from
block zero.

Regards,

	Alex