Subject: Re: installation problem
To: Armen Babikyan <armenb@moof.ai.mit.edu>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/07/1999 14:18:32
Armen Babikyan wrote:
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> <fontfamily><param>Geneva</param>Hello,
> 
> 
> A friend of mine ran across a problem while trying to install NetBSD
> 1.3.3 onto his quadra 840AV:
> 
> 
> drwxr-xr-x     0/0             0 Mon Dec 14 10:39 1998
> ./var/spool/mqueue
> 
> Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
> 
> Error on SCSIWrite(), # 5
> 
> Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
> 
> Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
> 
> Error on SCSIWrite(), # 5
> 
> Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
> 
> pos = 0, i = 11, fs = /
> 
> alloccgblk: can't find blk in cyl
> 
> 
> The hard drive he is installing to is an apple-branded 1.2gig quantum
> fireball.
> 
> 
> Does this look like a hardware problem? He reformatted his disk with
> Apple HD SC Setup and it apparently reported no bad block errors.

This sounds like the standard problem that a lot of people hit.  Try
moving the partitions around, like exchanging the swap partition and the
root partition or something like that.  This seems to work for some
people...

I hope this helps.

Later.

Colin