On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Chuck McManis wrote:

> At 04:50 AM 4/16/99 +0300, Erno Palonheimo wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Usually this indicates a problem in the disk label. Can you type 
> 	disklabel /dev/ra0
> and send the results? 

If /dev/rra0a works fine, I would suspect that the disk label itself is
okay, but he might be using a disk without any label. I think rra0a and
rra0c always exist, even on non-labeled disks...

> Also what disk layout are you using that uses an 'e' partition? I've seen
> lots of a,b,g,h and a, b, g but few that used e. 

Well, he might have edited it himself?

> Also you will need to know the make/model/exact geometry of the drive if
> the controller is not SCSI (even then you might need to know this too)

Nope. MSCP disks are just as cueless about geometry as SCSI.

	Johnny

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