On 5 Nov 1998, Ashley Campbell wrote:

> I'm working on installing the IBM 1G drive from my Mac into my DECstation
> 3100 running NetBSD/pmax. I have the drive installed, there are no
> partitions on it currently, and I have the following entry in my fstab:
> 
> IBM: \
>         :dt=SCSI:ty=winchester:ns#108:nt#4:nc#4903:\
>         :pa#1048576:os#0:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
>         :ta=4.2BSD:
>                         
> I tried to do a 
> 	disklabel -w -r rz2 IBM
> to write the disklabel. It tells me: 
> 	disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: Open partition would move or shrink
> 
> That happens whe I do it from the minishell or multi-user mode. If anyone
> knows what I'm doing wrong, or what I should do, please let me know.
> Thanks.

>From a previous post on this list:

>From obremski@alpha.fdu.edu Thu Nov  5 17:34:19 1998
Date: 28 Oct 98 23:24:53 GMT
From: Greg Obremski <obremski@alpha.fdu.edu>
Newsgroups: muc.lists.netbsd.port.pmax
Subject: Re: scsi disk problems..weird


Hrm..I bought the drives to my sparc at work, and low-leveled them both.
0 defects.
bought them home...netbsd is installing happily.

Moral of the story: low-level scsi drives that come from macs, i guess :)