In message <20030918031024.GG12502@bcd.geek.com.au>, Daniel Carosone writes:
>On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:07:17PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
>> So, I have a NetBSD-1.6ZB kernel and install set, which starts working,
>> but fails on the newfs of /dev/rsd0a because it got a write error
>> trying to access block 128 of the disk.  Before this, it complains that
>> it can't figure out what geometry to use when talking to the disk.
>> 
>> I've tried the canonical thing to clear up SCSI disk geometry problems - dd
>> from /dev/zero to the first few blocks of rsd0d.  However, it still seems
>> to be confused.
>> 
>> Anyone else seen similar behavior on recent -current?  I don't think I've
>> seen SCSI geometry problems in YEARS, so I don't know for sure what the
>> troubleshooting steps are now.
>
>I think this could be a bug in newfs fixed by enami a couple of days ago.

That would fit extremely well.  Thanks.

-s