On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:07:17PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> So, I have a NetBSD-1.6ZB kernel and install set, which starts working,
> but fails on the newfs of /dev/rsd0a because it got a write error
> trying to access block 128 of the disk.  Before this, it complains that
> it can't figure out what geometry to use when talking to the disk.
> 
> I've tried the canonical thing to clear up SCSI disk geometry problems - dd
> from /dev/zero to the first few blocks of rsd0d.  However, it still seems
> to be confused.
> 
> Anyone else seen similar behavior on recent -current?  I don't think I've
> seen SCSI geometry problems in YEARS, so I don't know for sure what the
> troubleshooting steps are now.

I think this could be a bug in newfs fixed by enami a couple of days ago.

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Dan.