Ian Freislich wrote this message on Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 18:48 +0200: > I've just tried this dd'ing /dev/zero over the front of the disk > first to no avail (the probed geometry is the geometry that fdisk > used anyway). I also tried your much loved ficticious geometry of > 255H 64S and that didn't work. It's a RPITA. In the end I dangerously > dedicated the disk and that works. One thing you might of been missing is making sure that the type in the disklabel was set properly. For scsi, it must be SCSI, and for IDE it must be IDE or ESDI. I had problems with this too. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."Received on Mon Jul 14 2003 - 08:02:58 UTC
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