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From: dhhoveme@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (David H. Hovemeyer)
Subject: NetBSD 0.8: newfs hangs
Message-ID: <1993Jul28.231004.4098@newstand.syr.edu>
Keywords: NetBSD newfs IDE
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 93 23:10:04 EDT
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Hello again,
Acting on a suggestion that the problems I had trying to
disklabel my 2nd IDE drive were due to corrupted /usr/mdec files,
I swapped them for the ones on the NetBSD install1 disk.
Sure enough,
# disklabel -w -r wd1 cp30174e
then proceeded without complaint. Here is the /etc/disktab
entry:
cp30174e|Conner Peripherals 170MB IDE:\
:dt=ST506:ty=winchester:\
:nc#903:ns#46:nt#8:\
:se#512:\
:pa#165968:oa#0:ta=4.2BSD:ba#4096:fa#512:\
:pb#1:ob#331936:\
:pc#332304:oc#0:\
:pd#332304:od#0:\
:pe#165968:oe#165968:te=4.2BSD:be#4096:fe#512:
At this point I thought I was home free. I then tried
# newfs /dev/wd1a
hoping to format partition a. It appeared to be working, but
after printing a list of super-block backups, it died. Here
is what was left on the screen:
newfs: /dev/wd1a: not a character-special device
/dev/wd1a: 165968 sectors in 451 cylinders of 8 tracks, 46 sectors
85.0MB in 29 cyl groups (16 c/g, 3.01MB/g, 1376 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
32, 5968, 11904, 17840, 23776, 29712, 35648, 41584, 47136,
53072, 59008, 64944, 70880, 76816, 82752, 88688, 94240, 100176,
106112, 112048, 117984, 123980, 129856, 135792, 141344, 147280, 153216,
159152, 165088,
I am confident that newfs was truly hosed and not merely
frozen. Trying to be clever, I ran newfs (and fsck) in the
background
# (newfs /dev/wd1a > foo ; fsck /dev/wd1a ) &
with the hope that I could then use ps to monitor its progress.
However, after a couple seconds, the machine was hung.
Any ideas? If you have experienced a similar problem (or
managed to set up two IDE drives *without* experiencing this
problem) please let me know.
Thanks,
Dave
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dhhoveme@rodan.acs.syr.edu