Subject: Re: how to format/partition a SCSI disk for a PowerMac 8500 (OF
To: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 02/28/2000 16:43:57
At 4:17 PM -0800 2/28/00, Bob Nestor wrote:
>Henry B. Hotz (hotz@jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
>>2) Format the FFS partition(s) with Mkfs or however else you might do it
>>under port-mac68k.
>
>Sort of. Mkfs can't handle IDE disks at all right now, nor can it handle
>SCSI disks on Bus 1. On my G3 system that's where the SCSI disk hangs.
Ah.
I hadn't thought about that. I have [78]500 machines and scsi-int is bus
0. I guess I'm lucky and most people really are in trouble.
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