Am Mittwoch, 07. September 2005 um 07:38:06 Uhr (-0700) schrieb Andy Ruhl:

> Can you post what type of disk it is, and what NetBSD thinks the geometry is?

I tried two 1024 MB CF flash cards, one by Sandisk, the other a no-name
brand with a Toshiba chip inside. Since I got identical problems with
both of them, I sticked with the SanDisk.

> If possible, can you attach the disk to another (hopefully not broken)
> NetBSD system and compare results? Does it newfs on another system?

It does newfs on the other system, yes, without problems,
On that NetBSD system - actually a Thinkpad booted with a NetBSD
1.6 boot CD - I get the folling fdisk information for the card:

NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 678400 heads: 4 sectors/track: 0 (0 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 497 heads: 64 sectors/track: 64 (4032 sectors/cylinder)

disklabel /dev/sd0 says:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 1008
total sectors: 10000944

During the (unsuccessful) newfs run in the install routine, it says:
/dev/rwd0a: 915.5 MB (1874912 sectors) block size 8192, fragment size
1024 using 21 cylinder groups of 43.50 MB, 5581 blks, 10816 inodes


-F

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