Subject: Re: Mounting a Zip
To: Josh Hope <otaku@redneck.hick.com>
From: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/08/1997 21:36:12
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Josh Hope wrote:

> I've created a NetBSD Usr partition on my Zip drive. I've Mkfs'd using 32
> sectors/track and 64 tracks/cylinder (as according to the instructions).
> 
> When I boot single user and attempt to run fsck -p, I get the following
> error:
> 
> /dev/rsd2a: CANNOT READ: BLK 16
> /dev/rsd2a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck_ffs MANUALLY.
> 
> So, I run fsck with no arguments. Following is output:
> 
> CANNOT READ: BLK16
> CONTINUE? [yn] y
> THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26,
> 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,
> /dev/rsd2a: NOT LABELED AS A BSD FILE SYSTEM (unknown)

Are you using sbc or ncrscsi?  If ncrscsi, try sbc (I wouldn't try ncrscsi
with ez135's anyway, tho).  Otherwise, is the sbc driver giving any sort
of errors, like medium errors or anything, or is it just fsck that's
giving errors?


David