> 
> There is something wrong with the newfs on netbsd.ram. I got my MV II
> to boot from net, but as I boot that, and then try to generate
> filesystems on disks, the following happens with rra0e. rra0a is ok,
> but rra0e fails.
> 
> # newfs /dev/rra0e
> ra0: invalid command (unknown subcode) (code 1, subcode 224)
> write error: 214070
> wtfs: Undefined error: 0
> 
This looks like you are writing outside the disk. Try decreasing the 
partition size and see what happens.

-- Ragge