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From: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com>
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Subject: Trouble newfs'ing
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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:47:48 -0500 (CDT)
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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?