Re: port-atari/40571: NetBSD Atari install fails to prepare 16GB MTRON SSD on ACARD SCSI to IDE bridge

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-atari/40571; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
To: <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-atari/40571: NetBSD Atari install fails to prepare 16GB MTRON 
SSD on ACARD SCSI to IDE bridge
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:15:52 -0800

 Just as a note, David Brownlee helped diagose this and it was determined 
 that zero'ing the first MB of the disk and rebooting fixes this issue.  It 
 appears that for some reason the format operation performed by my Adaptec 
 SCSI BIOS leaves some junk on the disk.
 
 It would be great if there were an advanced option during install to wipe 
 the disk and reload the disklabel (including doing whatever is necessary to 
 refresh the version of the disklabel the kernel caches).  Otherwise, the 
 install should be more forgiving if there is already junk on the disk -- the 
 current mode of failure isn't great.
 
 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: <gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost>
 To: <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
 Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 10:40 PM
 Subject: Re: port-atari/40571: NetBSD Atari install fails to prepare 16GB 
 MTRON SSD on ACARD SCSI to IDE bridge
 
 
 > Thank you very much for your problem report.
 > It has the internal identification `port-atari/40571'.
 > The individual assigned to look at your
 > report is: port-atari-maintainer.
 >
 >>Category:       port-atari
 >>Responsible:    port-atari-maintainer
 >>Synopsis:       NetBSD Atari install fails to prepare 16GB MTRON SSD on 
 >>ACARD SCSI to IDE bridge
 >>Arrival-Date:   Sat Feb 07 06:40:01 +0000 2009
 >
 >