Hello. On Thursday 11 March 2004 22:15, John Goerzen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:25:27PM +0100, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > > Yesterday I received a DEC PWS 500au with an IBM 34560 SCSI disk. I try > > to install Woody 3.0r0 on it, but I have problems partitioning the disk. > > If there is no data on the disk worth saving, I'd recommend zeroing out > the partition table and other areas near the start of the disk: > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1048576 count=1 of=/dev/sda > > (replace /dev/sda with the device of interest) > > Note this will WIPE your partition table! > > fdisk/cfdisk sometimes get confused if a disk already has a partition > table that is invalid or unrecognized, but if you start fresh, they'll > grab the geometry by querying the SCSI system and initialize things > properly. > > -- John
Now it works. The tool came up with a proposed value of 3600 rpm, so I did not trust the rest of the values. I changed it to 7200 rpm, kept the rest. The machine is installing the base system right now ... Thank you, Hartwig
