User Ben Zeller says:
> 
> I've been off the list for a while, but now I've returned.
> 
> I'm running into a problem installing onto a IIci.  about 90% into the
> install of the base tarball I get the following error:
> 
> SCSI Read() #5
> pos=0 i=14 fs=/
> alloccgblk: can't find blk in cyl
> 
> Some sort of bad formatting I thought.  So I reformatted, but I still get
> the same error.  What should I do?  The mini-shell won't let me run fsck on
> the partition.  Could it be a bad hard drive?  It worked fine under MacOS.

The FAQ says it is a problem with some scsi drives (notably >1 gig
quantums). If you get enough of the OS onto the hard drive you can use
cpin to copy the tarball over then boot into single user mode and install in
from unix. See section 4.12 of the FAQ...

Bob

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