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From: kenny@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Kenneth L. Gleason Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: newfs message on install
Date: 23 May 1995 03:07:19 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.   USA
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I've already emailed freebsd tech support, but I know they're busy,
so here goes...

I go through sysinstall, define my partitions and mountpoints, and then 
hit "proceed".  newfs is invoked, and then promptly repeats the following
error message:

wd0a: wdstart: timeout waiting to give command writing fsbn 1008 of 
1008-1023 (wd0 bn 210672. cn 52 tn 16 sn 0) wd0: status 0 error 1 
<no_dam>

I noticed that when I first boot from the boot floppy, I also get this 
message...

wd0: cant handle 64 heads from partition table (controller value 16 
restored)

The machine is 100MHz Pentium, 1GB Western Digital Disk, with OS/2 and 
DOS/WINDOWS already installed. 

Is this similar to the problem with newfs mentioned in the troubleshooting
section, meaning I have to wait for the next release? or am I doing something
else wrong?  any help will be greatly appreciated....

ken
Kenneth L. Gleason Jr.
MPI Media Group
kenny@casbah.acns.nwu.edu