On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Paul Goyette wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> That sounds weird... Hmm, maybe something else then...
>> I'll get back to the code and read more.
>> Any other suggestions why it spews that error to me?
>> I have placed a NetBSD disklabel on it, and it's happy with me writing to 
>> the disk.
>
>
> Sounds wierd to me too, 'specially since NetBSD is happy writing the
> label.  What does boot-time configuration dialog say about the drive?

Gnome:/home/bqt> dmesg
NetBSD 2.99.11 (Gnome) #8: Sun Jan  2 00:25:29 CET 2005
         root@Gnome.BQTnet.SE:/sys/arch/vax/compile/obj/Gnome

VAXstation 3100/m76
cpu: KA43
primary cache status: 1a<HIT,REFRESH,ENABLE>
secondary cache status: ffe1<TPE,DPE,MISS,ENABLE>
total memory = 32508 KB
avail memory = 28864 KB
mainbus0 (root)
vsbus0 at mainbus0
vsbus0: interrupt mask 8
le0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200e0000 vec 120 ipl 14 maskbit 5 buf 0x2835f000-0x2836efff
le0: address 08:00:2b:25:f6:1b
le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
dz0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200a0000 vec 304 ipl 14 maskbit 6
dz0: 4 lines
lkkbd0 at dz0
wskbd0 at lkkbd0 mux 1
lkms0 at dz0
wsmouse0 at lkms0 mux 0
si0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200c0080 vec 770 ipl 14 maskbit 1
si0: NCR5380, SCSI ID 6
scsibus0 at si0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
si1 at vsbus0 csr 0x200c0180 vec 774 ipl 14 maskbit 0
si1: NCR5380, SCSI ID 6
scsibus1 at si1: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
smg0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200f0000 vec 104 ipl 14 maskbit 3
wsdisplay0 at smg0 kbdmux 1
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
wskbd0: connecting to wsdisplay0
wsdisplay0: screen 0-7 added (128x57, vt100 emulation)
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <CONNER, CFP4207S  4.28GB, 1524> disk fixed
sd0: 4096 MB, 3999 cyl, 20 head, 104 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8388608 sectors
sd0: async, 8-bit transfers
sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <CONNER, CFP4207S  4.28GB, 1420> disk fixed
sd1: fabricating a geometry
sd1: 4096 MB, 4096 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8388608 sectors
sd1: async, 8-bit transfers
cd0 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, XM-4101TASUNSLCD, 3424> cdrom removable
cd0: async, 8-bit transfers
sd1: fabricating a geometry
boot device: sd1
root on sd1a dumps on sd1b
sd1: fabricating a geometry
sd1: fabricating a geometry
sd1: fabricating a geometry
sd1: fabricating a geometry
root file system type: ffs

 	Johnny

Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt@update.uu.se           ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol