From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 15:36:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ee.cua.edu (pluto.ee.cua.edu [136.242.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630D315871 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:36:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zottl@pluto.ee.cua.edu) Received: from localhost (zottl@localhost) by pluto.ee.cua.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA28513; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:36:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:36:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Julian A. Zottl" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Large HD problem (panic vinvalbuf on newfs) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I'm trying to install a 40G Maxtor drive on my box. I can fdisk it just fine, but when I go to do a disklabel (from within sysinstall) it says it can't write it. So I tried to create the file system manually by doing: newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/wd2s1c It starts creating the superblocks just fine, but then dies off around when it reaches a high count (around 8000000 I believe) and gives me the error: panic vinvalbuf: dirty bufs sync disks: 1 1 1 1 ... Then it reboots :/ BTW, this is on a 3.3-R system. TIA, Julian Sysadmin & Electrical Engineer, Vitreous State Laboratory Masters' Student, Electrical Engineering, Catholic University of America zottl@pluto.ee.cua.edu (202)319-5522 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message