hard disk "not ready" - newbie, please forgive me!

[ANDREW INFANTE <AINFANTE@email.usps.gov>]

     I have a machine with an EIDE drive and a SCSI 1.3GB

     The SCSI is an old HP mainframe drive with 255 heads, 164 cylinders,
     and 63 sectors.  I am able to use the rescue disk to start the debian
     install, and then modify the settings with the expert commands withing
     FDISK so that it doesn't see >1024 cylinders.  After creating
     partitions, I went to initilize the partition for linux, and it tells
     me the drive is "not ready."  Any idea what this means?  Do I need to
     format the drive or something?  What settings do I need to
     enable/disable to have the root partition and swap partitions set up
     on the drive?

     Thanks,

     Andy Infante
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From: ANDREW J INFANTE at RANC021L
Date: 2/27/98 8:59AM
To: debian-user-request@lists.debian.org at INTERNET
Subject: hard disk "not ready" - newbie, please forgive me!
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