On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:13:40PM +0200, Claus wrote: > hi, > > this is the problem: > I've got a 2,5" HD with a msdos partition table and > want to give it my sister for her Apple PB5300. > The PB has OS8.1 installed and refuses to detect the > HD 'cause the HD's MBR contains DOS information. > I have no Mac or do know one to hijack. > > As far as I know Macs accept and format HD's if there's > no information in the mbr, so there's one solution: > # dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hdX bs=512 count=1 > > correct me if I'm wrong, please.
you would want /dev/zero, not /dev/null. but MacOS should be able to read msdos partition tables, if you have PC Exchange installed. i have done this before... (it has to have an ordinary FAT partition on it however, no other filesystem is supported). > My question regarding parted is whether it's possible > to write an Apple partion map on the HD when it's not > in an Apple but a i86 notebook or desktop. yes, but MacOS will still not accept the disk because it won't have the proprietary Apple disk drivers on it. > would an apple computer accept these HD (generated with > i86-parted on a duron with 'mklabel mac'): no, but PowerPC GNU/Linux will. (it has no need for that MacOS cruft). > Disk label type: mac > Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags > 1 0.000 0.031 Apple > (parted) q GNU/Linux will accept this, MacOS will not. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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