Subject: Re: 9.1 Gbyte SCSI Drive

From: Ethan Benson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:12:18 -0800

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:00:44PM -0400, Hollis R Blanchard wrote:
> 
> As long as you don't try to make it with pdisk, which claims all disks
> without an existing valid Apple partition map are 512.0 GB.

there is a workaround for that, just tell it how many blocks the disk
has, this is discussed in my mac-fdisk-basics doc at
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc and
http://penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/

> parted (or Drive Setup) should work fine.

parted is fine. Drive setup is evil.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/