On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Ian Chilton wrote:
> When I go into Disk Manager, I only see SystemDisk(0,1) 4.04GB, which is my
> normal IRIX disk......does this mean my 2nd disk isn't working?
>
> The 2nd disk I put in was a 1GB, straight out of my Linux box, still with an
> EXT2 partition on....does this matter?
>
Yes, it does. IRIX won't like the Linux partition table one bit. The
simplest thing to do would be to stick it in the linux box and do this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd# bs=512 count=10
Where /dev/sd# is the SCSI device, IE /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc...
Don't use a name with a numeric suffix or you'll just zap the partition,
not the partition table itself.
However, IRIX should have seen the drive regardless, but would have told
you it could not create a file system on it or some such thing, so there's
still the possibility something is not in place right here.
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