Oh, one more bit of info. When I go in to the Compaq configuration
and test tools for the RAID card it reports that the RAID has no
alarms and is functioning correctly, so it does not apear to be
a h/w problem.

-Sean

>Greetings,
>
>I have a Compaq dual PPro 200 with the Compaq SMART2 RAID card
>on it.  It has two logical disk setups, ld0 (a two disk mirror)
>and ld1 (a seven disk RAID5).
>
>NetBSD 1.6-release from the ISO images was able to disklabel both
>logical disks and lay out a file system.  I then sup'd down 1.6I
>(sup marked 1033814515) and build a new kernel (which works great
>with both processors) and then build the world.
>
>Now I get a sector 16 read-only error when trying to run newfs on
>the ld1a partition. This is with the GENERIC.MP as well as the 
>GENERIC kernels.
>
>Here is the disklabel info on the logical disk:
>
># disklabel /dev/ld1
># /dev/ld1d:
>type: ld
>disk: unknown
>label: fictitious
>flags:
>bytes/sector: 512
>sectors/track: 63
>tracks/cylinder: 128
>sectors/cylinder: 8064
>cylinders: 6237
>total sectors: 50299515
>rpm: 7200
>interleave: 1
>trackskew: 0
>cylinderskew: 0
>headswitch: 0           # microseconds
>track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
>drivedata: 0 
>
>16 partitions:
>#        size    offset     fstype  [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> a:  50299515         0     4.2BSD   2048 16384    46   # (Cyl.    0 - 6237*
>)
> d:  50299515         0     unused      0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 6237*
>)
>
>Here is the newfs output:
>
># newfs /dev/ld1a
>Warning: 3720 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
>/dev/ld1a:      50299512 sectors in 6238 cylinders of 128 tracks, 63 sectors
>        24560.3MB in 136 cyl groups (46 c/g, 181.12MB/g, 22784 i/g)
>super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>       32,   371040,   742048,  1113056,  1484064,  1855072,  2226080,
>  2597088,  2968096,  3339104,  3710112,  4081120,  4452128,  4823136,
>  5194144,  5565152,  5936160,  6307168,  6678176,  7049184,  7420192,
>  7791200,  8162208,  8533216,  8904224,  9275232,  9646240, 10017248,
> 10388256, 10759264, 11130272, 11501280, 11872288, 12243296, 12614304,
> 12985312, 13356320, 13727328, 14098336, 14469344, 14840352, 15211360,
> 15582368, 15953376, 16324384, 16695392, 17066400, 17437408, 17808416,
> 18179424, 18550432, 18921440, 19292448, 19663456, 20034464, 20405472,
> 20776480, 21147488, 21518496, 21889504, 22260512, 22631520, 23002528,
> 23373536, 23744544, 24115552, 24486560, 24857568, 25228576, 25599584,
> 25970592, 26341600, 26712608, 27083616, 27454624, 27825632, 28196640,
> 28567648, 28938656, 29309664, 29680672, 30051680, 30422688, 30793696,
> 31164704, 31535712, 31906720, 32277728, 32648736, 33019744, 33390752,
> 33761760, 34132768, 34503776, 34874784, 35245792, 35616800, 35987808,
> 36358816, 36729824, 37100832, 37471840, 37842848, 38213856, 38584864,
> 38955872, 39326880, 39697888, 40068896, 40439904, 40810912, 41181920,
> 41552928, 41923936, 42294944, 42665952, 43036960, 43407968, 43778976,
> 44149984, 44520992, 44892000, 45263008, 45634016, 46005024, 46376032,
> 46747040, 47118048, 47480864, 47851872, 48222880, 48593888, 48964896,
> 49335904, 49706912, 50077920,
>wtfs: write error for sector 16: Read-only file system
>
>Any suggestions on how I can handle this?
>
>Thanks!
>
>-Sean