Subject: Re: [2.0-RC1] shutdown is not clean
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Gerhards <HM-Gerhards@uni.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/04/2004 19:59:57
sigsegv@rambler.ru wrote:
> 
> OK I'm only guessing, but the disklabel shows "sectors/track 255" most 
> disks have 63 sectors/track, I don't know if that's gonna cause any 
> problems. If you're having some filesystem corruption you may want to 
> scan the surface of your hard disk for bad sectors etc. What you can 
> also do is blank out the disk and reinstall NetBSD, maybe fdisk or 
> disklabel got confused
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0c bs=64k
> 
> this will destroy all data on disk, it takes about 30min for a 40GB disk

I tried it this way and reinstalled NetBSD. Unfortunately, the problem
still exists :-(

But now "disklabel /dev/wd0" gives me another output, showing 63
sectors/track. This obviously was not the reason for this trouble...

Any more ideas?

Michael