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Does anyone know if this is possible?  I have an old 80MB Quantum from a
Mac - the SCSI BIOS recognizes it (after a very long spin-up sequence)
but the kernel usually doesn't, and when it does, it spits out a bunch
of error messages regarding the drive's geometry.  It's possible that
the drive itself is broken, but I don't have a Mac to test it with!

I'm using kernel 2.0.32, and Symbios 53c810 and 53c875 SCSI adapters
with the BSD driver.

I remember seeing that there was support for Macintosh partition tables
in the later 2.1 kernels (though I had a lot of difficulty compiling
them) - does this work?

--
David Huggins-Daines

http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1204672

I have used an old 80 Quantum myself from an old Mac, and now have an
old 180 as my root filesystem.

Hope this answers your question.

Sanat

Can you low-level format it? That's commonly required if you move to a new
host adapter.

Hope this helps!

- Bob

: Does anyone know if this is possible?  I have an old 80MB Quantum from a
: Mac - the SCSI BIOS recognizes it (after a very long spin-up sequence)
: but the kernel usually doesn't, and when it does, it spits out a bunch
: of error messages regarding the drive's geometry.  It's possible that
: the drive itself is broken, but I don't have a Mac to test it with!

Hi David.  Please post the messages.  What kind of problem do
you have?  Is the kernel recognizing the drive and labelling it
as, say, /dev/sdb.  If not, you have a hardware problem.  Without
a boot message printout, it is hard to second guess your problem.
If the disk is recognized, but cannot be mounted, that is another
problem entirely, and the solution is a new partition and filesystem.
For the hardware problem, I have solved these.  I can help you if
you post the boot messages.

Eric

I'm afraid that I have no idea how to figure out what might
be wrong with your setup.

Dick