Hosed OSF/1 partition table!

[Paul Chapman <pchapman fury bio dfo ca>]

Hi,

Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but it concerns both DU 3.2 and linux.

I've been trying to boot linux on an AS 200, which already has DU 3.2 on it.  I
have an external drive to put it on.  Well, after lots of trouble, including a
kernel recompile and a firmware update, I got to the redhat installation.

By this time, I was a little inattentive and managed to overwrite the partition
table of the OSF/1 boot drive!  ("The partition table on /dev/sda is corrupt. 
Do you want to initialize it?").  Why is initializing the default, btw?  After
many hours in front of a screen, an "a" looks like a "c".  Aaaaaargh!!

Anyway, is there any way to get this drive back to the way it was?  I have
access to another linux/alpha machine, as well as another OSF/1 machine, if
that helps.

Man, I feel dumb.

Thanks enormously for any help!
-Paul Chapman
pchapman@fury.bio.dfo.ca