On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:06:05PM -0400, Kurt J. Lidl wrote:
> 
> # newfs -i 8192 /dev/rsd0a
> /dev/rsd0a: 140.3MB (287280 sectors) block size 8192, fragment size 1024
>         using 4 cylinder groups of 35.07MB, 4489 blks, 4416 inodes.
> wtfs: write error for sector 287279: Undefined error: 0
> 

Only this, or something else in dmesg too? I'd check if drive is
working first.

> Any other suggestions?
> 

Start with sun's label. NetBSD doesn't require netbsd's label.
Partition disk under solaris or by netbsd's sunlabel and then
try newfs.

	Andrey