[4535] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: syquest syjet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher E. Brown)
Thu Aug 13 00:16:53 1998
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:50:32 -0800 (AKDT)
From: "Christopher E. Brown" <cbrown@denalics.net>
To: Sandy Basickes <basic@Op.Net>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199808100426.AAA05480@renoir.op.net>
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Sandy Basickes wrote:
> dear people,
>
> i have a scsi syquest syjet attached to a bus logic bt 958.
>
> the syjet is recognized by the bt 958 and assigned to sdb
>
> i used cfdisk to partition the syjet disk. the partition was automatically
> assigned to linux native (83). i tried to change it to ext2 (type 85).
This is very wrong. Type 85 is a linux extended partition, it has
nothing to do with the 2nd extended file system. You must create a linux
native (type 82), and then use mke2fs to *create the file system* within
that partition.
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