Re: newfs seems stuck in loop

[Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>]

On Sun 02 May 2010 at 00:00:36 -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> This is a real hardware VAXstation, right.  Maybe it has a really old
> SCSI controller that uses the 6-byte command set and can not address
> beyond 1GB.   Or rather disk addresses wrap around so that after 1GB
> they over-write the beginning of the disk.

I should have mentioned that there was already another 2 GB disk in the
machine, which I installed with 2.0F or similar vintage, and the
partitioning is very similar, and then I must have been able to newfs
it. I wanted to test a fresh install on the "new" disk.

>     carl
-Olaf.
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