From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 14:39:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA13116 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:39:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cygint.cygnus.com (cygnus.com [205.180.230.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA13069 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:38:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from cfcl.com (cfcl.com [140.174.42.20]) by cygint.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7-cygnus) with SMTP id OAA04906 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:38:44 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cygnus.com: Processed from queue /var/spool/mqueue Received: by cfcl.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10899; Thu, 26 Feb 98 14:37:10 PST Date: Thu, 26 Feb 98 14:37:10 PST From: rdm@cfcl.com (Rich Morin) Message-Id: <9802262237.AA10899@cfcl.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rdm@cfcl.com Subject: disk setup questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear people- I am running FreeBSD 2.2.1 on a 200 MHz Pentium system with 64 MB of RAM and an Adaptec 2940 SCSI card. I have gotten "media error" several times on a couple of Micropolis 9 GB (MICROP 1991-27) disk drives. So, I ran scsiformat on both drives, with no reported errors. I then used /stand/ sysinstall to set up each drive as a single "C" partition. Finally, I tried to newfs the drives (e.g., "newfs -m 5 /dev/rsd3c"). Both drives failed this procedure, hanging the machine (or at least the SCSI bus) in the process. Specifically, newfs printed out a series of perhaps hals a dozen super-block numbers, then hung. I was able to ping the machine, but not to rlogin into it. Help? Yours, Rich Morin P.S. I *know* I should install 2.2.5, but I'm waiting for a lull in my other activities before I do this... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message