Subject: Re: SS1 SCSI problems during install
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org, steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/12/1999 17:48:44
> 8 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:  200/0/0    0/0/0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 199)
>   b:  200/0/0  200/0/0       swap                        # (Cyl.  200 - 399)
>   c: 6300/0/0    0/0/0    unknown                        # (Cyl.    0 - 6299)
>   f: 1966/0/0  400/0/0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  400 - 2365)
>   g: 1966/0/0 2365/0/0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 2365 - 4330)
>   h: 1968/0/0 4330/0/0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 4330 - 6297)
> hw-ss1#
>

Seems like your f,g and h partitions have a one-cylinder overlap.

I'm not saying this explains all the error messages you get, but you
could try again after correcting the disk label.

-pk