From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 06:05:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA24179 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 06:05:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA24152 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 06:05:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA18036; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:05:15 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199802271405.IAA18036@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: disk setup questions To: rdm@cfcl.com (Rich Morin) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 08:05:15 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rdm@cfcl.com In-Reply-To: <9802262237.AA10899@cfcl.com> from Rich Morin at "Feb 26, 98 02:37:10 pm" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In a previous message, Rich Morin said: > 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... Yeah, I think the 2940UW had troubles in 2.2.1. Also, the 2940 is very, very, very, very, very picky about termination. So, 1) Check termination 2) Check termination 3) Check termination 4) hope for a lull and get up to 2.2.5 (though 2.2.6 is RSN or so Doug aka the Amazing email machine, tells us) 5) Just for kicks, check termination 6) Then make sure you have termination correct. -- Labor, n.: One of the processes by which A acquires property for B. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message