Partitioning a non-apple drive for A/UX
Gabe M Wiener
gmw1 at CUNIXD.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU
Sun May 7 00:42:12 AEST 1989
Hello NetLanders. I'm trying to partition a brand-new Storage Dimensions 300
Meg drive. I want to set it up so that I can have BOTH the MacOS and A/UX
running on the same drive.
Now Apple's HD SC Setup is capable of partitioning a drive in this way, but
alas, the program only runs with Apple-sold drives. I went in with ResEdit
and inserted the SCSI identifier of my drive into the table. It recognizes it
now, but every time I try to initialize it, I receive the message "Unable to
prepare drive for initialization." When I initialize it under another program
and then try to partition it under HD SC Setup, I receive a message like, "The
Partition map has become invalid."
Now I know for a fact that what I'm trying to do can be done from the "dp"
utility that runs under Apple's Stand-Alone Shell, but I lack the knowledge to
do that (it involves messing around with raw block #'s, etc.).
Can anyone recommend either
a fix for HD SC Setup
or
another program that'll do it
or
a quick tutorial in the workings of dp? The manual reference is
sketchy, to say the least.
Thanks
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