From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 15:47:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA15490 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from d2si.com (macbeth.d2si.com [206.8.31.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA15472 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 15:47:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from alec@localhost) by d2si.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA00510 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:47:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Alec Kloss Message-Id: <199709122247.RAA00510@d2si.com> Subject: Trouble newfs'ing To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:47:48 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Twice in a row I tried to newfs a partition on a Quantum SCSI drive identified by the kernel as Sep 12 17:24:21 macbeth /kernel: (ahc0:0:0): \ "QUANTUM XP34550W LXQ1" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 and the system locked up. There is no indication of a problem in /var/log/messages. I then tried dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0s1d newfs /dev/sd0s1d and everything seems okay. Is it necessary to dd a partition like this or is this a symptom of another problem? Any ideas?