On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Alexander Bubnov wrote:
>> Maybe try zapping the disk with
>>
>>   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d count=100
>>
>> and try again with option b ?
>
> Thanks for help!
>
> One more question before the next trial.
> What does this command do? Does it check a disk for bad sectors?

No, it wipes out the fdisk partition table, boot code and NetBSD disklabel 
(if the NetBSD partition is at the beginning of the disk).

I'm not sure that option b will work though as there won't be any 
partition to reinstall onto.

-- 
Stephen