Bug#129479: scsi disk not detected

[Manuel Quesada <quesada@euro.de.mew.com>]

Chris Tillman wrote:

>
> Well, certainly, you do not have a scsi disk that mac-fdisk can
> find. Is it by chance a pc-formatted scsi? mac-fdisk would try to read
> the partition table at the beginning of the disk, which is an Apple
> format.
>

No, it's a Mac formated hard disk (in fact, I use MacOS in this drive to boot
Debian)

>
> Possibly you could use Drive Setup to initialize the disk (if you have
> MacOS available). If you don't have MacOS, and you have a floppy (but
> this was an iMac, wasn't it?) you could use the downloadable MacOS
> Disk Tools floppy to do that.
>

I used Drive Setup, first with one partition for MacOS (HFS) and the rest of
the disk free, and then with two HFS partitions.
It's not an iMac but a PowerMac 7600 (old world)


>
> If you have another Linux system, you could always connect the drive
> in to that system to get it initialized or even to install on it, and
> then move it back.
>

Unfortunately, the system I can use has no scsi cards to connect the drive
Thanks again,

Manuel Quesada