Re: Disklabel for IBM DDRS 34560

[Hartwig.Atrops@t-online.de (Hartwig Atrops)]

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