Well, I see some kind of deadlock here.
I assume the split/no-split flag is stored on the hdd in the first few blocks. That is where scsi.device stores its RDB. So the scsi.device RDB is invisible to the Powerflyer and changing the split flag will destroy the RDB for scsi.device.
What you'd need now is the drive geometry as presented by the Powerflyer. But this does not work because the driver returns unprintable characters or such in the drive description. This is most likely a bug in the Powerflyer drivers or perhaps in the hdd's firmware.
What you could try is to read the config using scsi.device and then insert the values by hand when connected to the Powerflyer. But I'm quite sure you will lose all data this way, because of the few blocks in the beginning which slightly offset each partition.
This is really a challenging problem :-D
But it's not unsolvable. Unfortunately I don't own a Powerflyer for experimenting, so I'd like to agree with NeRP.
Bye,
Thomas
