Hi there

I just this week obtained a SS1 and installed NetBSD. The OS is currently
on an external disk (MD21/760Mb ESDI). Works OK. But I also want to use
the SUN0207 internal disk.

So, I disklabeled it and (to be sure) rebooted. Then:

# disklabel -r sd2
# /dev/rsd2c:
type: unknown
disk: SUN0207
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 36
tracks/cylinder: 9
sectors/cylinder: 324
cylinders: 1254
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

7 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    49152        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 151*)
  b:    98304    49152    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.  151*- 455*)
  c:   406296        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 1253)
  g:   258840   147456    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.  455*-
1253*)
#

Looks OK to me. But 

# newfs /dev/rsd2a
newfs: /dev/rsd2a: Device not configured
#

What does work is:

# newfs /dev/rsd2c
/dev/rsd2c:     406296 sectors in 1254 cylinders of 9 tracks, 36 sectors
        198.4MB in 79 cyl groups (16 c/g, 2.53MB/g, 640 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 32, 5264, 10496, 15728, 20960, 26192, 31424, 36656,
 41888, 47120, 52352, 57584, 62816, 68048, 73280, 78512,
 82976, 88208, 93440, 98672, 103904, 109136, 114368, 119600,
 124832, 130064, 135296, 140528, 145760, 150992, 156224 ... 
...
newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument
newfs: /dev/rsd2c: can't rewrite disk label
#

What did I miss here? What about the ioctl failure?

Wilko
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