Re: Reading older disks

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost]

I cheated - I found a memory medule that fitted and got the system to
boot.   Did we really once find 356MBytes adequate?

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

> 
> I=92ve had similar problems with older disks and old versions of NetBSD. =
>  What I=92ve discovered is that older versions of NetBSD seem to =
> randomly blow away the disk label and partition table on the disk.  This =
> produces all sorts of I/O errors when NetBSD attempts to access the =
> disk.  What seems to have worked for me is running =93scan_ffs=94 on the =
> unwonted disk and using that information to reconstruct the disk label =
> and partition tables that can be restored with fdisk and disk label.  =
> Have recovered a couple of old disks that way.
> 
> -bob=
>