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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
> I don't think there are any files, Mac or otherwise, to be seen on this
> drive.  Using David's scsi 2.4.31 kernel (scsi built-in) I booted and it
> could find the partition on my working scsi drive (ext2 linux) as sda1.
> We rebooted with this drive instead and dmesg said:
> sda:  I/O error:  dev 08:00, sector 0
> unable to read partition table
>
> (We did not have that problem with my good drive).
>
> fdisk /dev/sda
> FATAL ERROR:  Cannot read disk drive

-snip-

> So this drive either never got partitioned, or the partition table went
> bad, I think.

Or this drive might be partitioned into Mac partitions, which (I
think) are incompatible with PC partition tables. If so, you need to
load a module to access the drive's partitions. None of the 2.4.31
kernels at your site (assuming that the configs are the same as what
you built) have support for Mac partitions, so you will need to use a
different kernel, perhaps from Slackware.

David