From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jun 17 13:26:59 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA03808 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 13:26:59 -0700 Received: from wall.olivetti.nl (wall.olivetti.nl [193.67.10.65]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA03789 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 13:26:52 -0700 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by wall.olivetti.nl (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA13191 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 22:26:46 +0200 Received: from oli1.olivetti.nl(192.87.20.30) by wall.olivetti.nl via smap (V1.3) id sma013189; Sat Jun 17 22:26:41 1995 Received: by oli1.olivetti.nl (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0sN4S0-000QezC; Sat, 17 Jun 95 22:26 MET DST Received: by olivaw.olivetti.nl (Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sN4QP-000SF9C; Sat, 17 Jun 95 22:25 MET DST Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 95 22:25:00 +0200 To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Disk errors installing 2.0.5-REL Reply-To: paulzn@olivetti.nl From: paulzn@olivetti.nl (Paul van der Zwan) Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been unable to install 2.0.5-REL on a machine that ran the latest SNAP without a problem and runs DOS without any disk-related problems I keep getting an error code of 10 on some writes when making the root fs. The disk is a Micropolis 1558 ESDI ( 1224 cyl 15 hds 35 sect.) connected to a WD1007 controller which remaps it to 814 cyl 15 hds 51 sect which is also the geometry DOS uses. When I run FreeBSD fdisk from the boot floppy ( I have tried the original and the one from UPDATES), it keep showing the geometry as 840 cyls which is wrong, even if I manually enter 814 cyls. When I enable badblock detection it detect a bad block every 35 blocks which looks very suspicious to me. Even after a low level format it keeps finding bad blocks every 35 blocks. Any suggestions ??? TIA Paul