Subject: Re: installing problems
To: paul yaskowski <paul@upvchamber.org>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/30/1999 17:47:21
> * Anders Magnusson (ragge@ludd.luth.se) [07.30.99 11:36]:
> > Good question. Can you access any blocks on the disk, with dd for example?
> > 
> 
> Well, the times that I am able to newfs it, I can mount and write files
> to the drive.  At one time, I even made the drive bootable.  But when I
> was untarring the base.tgz, after a while the kernel panic'd.
> 
> vax# dd if=/dev/sd0c
> ^C23+0 records in
> 22+0 records out
> 11264 bytes transferred in 13 secs (866 bytes/sec)
> 
> I can do that fine, no errors.  I don't know if that's what you mean.
> 
Yes, but do that to the whole disk. Also try writing to the whole disk
and see what happens.

-- Ragge