dooger watts wrote:
> Just got my new external hd case from newegg, and I'm having trouble
> getting the ide drive to format.
>
> Seems like I recall vague mention of having to format the drive BEFORE
> installing it in the external enclosure, but, as there was no mention of
> this in the admittedly skimpy instructions that came with the box, I
> thought I'd try to do it via usb.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
If the USB interface works at all, it ought to be happy to format the
disk. At the IDE and USB level, the MBR, partition tables, and
filesystem superblocks are just sectors on the disk, and don't
get any special treatment.
What kind of errors are you getting? What's in your dmesg output?
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
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