In message <20030918031024.GG12502@bcd.geek.com.au>, Daniel Carosone writes:
>> 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.

Observation:

newfs /dev/sd0a works.
newfs /dev/rsd0a fails on block #128.

I'm just re-cvs-updating to find out if the fix makes this go away, but
that's the specific symptom I had, nailed down a little further now.

-s