From: Kristin Utheim <badger@cray.sintef.no> Subject: (none) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1992 13:02:29 GMT
To: Linux-Activists@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU
Subject: SST disk partitions (SCSI)????
Hi Guys,
I have a question regarding partition tables on SCSI drives with
a WD-7000FASST controller. I gave a friend my 0.97 boot disk and
the 0.96 root disk to see how they worked on his PC. The boot
disk recognised his WD controller with his two disks (Quantum Pro
Drive 210MB and Syquest 40MB removable), but failed to read the
partition tables. The exact messages were:
sd0: bad partition table on dev 0800
sd1: bad partition table on dev 0810
He claims to have partitioned the drives using something called
SST which he also says has some sort of 'extensions' to the
partition table format.
I'm pretty sure that this is the source of the problem, although
without specs for this SST I can't be sure. I also reckon that he'll
have to forget this SST stuff if he's gonna create any partitions
for linux - 'cos even if genhd.c is hacked to read these partition
tables, efdisk/pfdisk/fdisk cannot be expected to understand or
preserve them.
Comments anybody. Confirm or deny? Anyone know anything about 'SST'.
All help much appreciated.
Regards,
-Andy
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