The corruption you reported (regular files magically turning into char or
block devices) is reminiscent of the problems with the NCR scsi driver.
Try to find a GENERICSBC kernel (its the same as GENERIC, but with the SBC
scsi driver).

On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, sandro marrone wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have another time destroyed my disk.
> 
> My disk was unlabeled becouse when I tried do this even the disk was destroyed.
> 
> Few day ago I have posted here a message for problem with some files, then
> I have deleted corrupted files and reinstalled them.  All right for some
> day but again other files have been corrupted, so I think that problem is
> that the disks (2) are unlabeled an try another time to do this, reading
> carefully man page, but... niet!
> 
> At reboot Mac68k Booter 1.9.5 stops saying unesixtent partition -1 and
> Apple HD SC Setup 3.0.1 (A/UX) say that "This disk is uninitialized, or its
> partition map has become invalid".
> 
> My system is:
> 
> - Mac LCII 8Mb ram
> - 1 HD PLI - PL52 Turbo - QUANTUM LP52S 9505094
> - 1 HD Apple - 40SC - QUANTUM P40S 94-40-94..
> - netBSD current, GENERIC#30
> 
> I have do this operations on PL52:
> 
> # disklabel sd1 > /label
> # pico /label
> - edit it. Minor changes: name, adding partition c: (unused - entire disk space
>            - offset 0, fsize=0, bsize=0, cpg=0,  Cyl. 0*- 768*-),
>            modified partition a: fsize=4096, bsize=8192, cpg=16.
> # disklabel -R sd1 /label  - no message from kernel
> # disklabel -R -r sd1 /label - no message again.
> 
> All seem ok, but at reboot stops.
> 
> Help!
> 
> ______________
> Sandro Marrone
> 
> ROMA - ITALY
> 
> 
> 

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