Re: Hard drive problem

[Hank <compdata@alltel.net>]

Tomy Alarie wrote:

> Hi, i've wanted to format my seagate barracuda 2.0 gb drive. I've used 
> Apple HD SC Setup patched, started to initialize.. And then it bugged. 
> So i've tryed back and the app doesnt see my drive. I've downloaded 
> APS PowerTools 4. Tryed to do a easy initialize and he wasnt able to 
> see anything on my drive ? How can i get my drive back ? 

Try LIDO. Do some research at www.jagshouse.com. Do a search on his site 
for LIDO. Works on PPC and m68k. About the best I've seen that's free.

By the way. Just edit the /etc/network/interfaces file as follows for DHCP:

   auto lo
   iface lo inet loopback

   auto eth0
   iface eth0 inet dhcp

I just followed Christian Steigies' advice. And it worked.

One other trick. Make sure that your dhcp is working in MacOS. I've seen 
the ethernet fail to work in Linux if it were not initialized and 
working in MacOS. In other words, be using the ethernet for TCP/IP and 
appletalk before booting into Linux.

I found that using  the <dhclient-2.2.x>  command or just <dhclient> 
seems to get the trick down after doing an
<ifconfig eth0 down>  But I guess the main thing is verifying that DHCP 
is working on the MacOS side doesn't hurt.

Hank