Yes I have ran a surface scan on the drive as well as repartioning
and formating it.  I have the exact same problems using other drives
as well.  The problem goes away if I plug in an aha1542.  Also, it
is always the same problem, 'CPG OUT OF RANGE' followed by a free
block count incorrect problem.

I highly doubt that it is a drive/cabling/hardware problem given
that the corruption only happens when using the 2842 and always
with the exact same error condition.  Looks more like a coding or
configuration problem.

The machine is slightly non standard in that I have the OS spread
across 2 1GB drives in 'true' BSD fashion.  I am running a
83Mhz Pentium OverDrive processor with 32MB RAM.  Also, there is
an IDE drive present with no disklabel installed.  I use system
commander to select which OS to boot.

Does anybody know what kind of updates happen to the root partion's
superblock during shutdown, if any?  Where does the code reside?


Thanx,
erik