From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 27 10:27:50 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id KAA19875 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 10:27:50 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA19867 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 1994 18:27:44 GMT Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA03426; Tue, 27 Dec 94 19:26:01 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (TAA27554); Tue, 27 Dec 1994 19:27:57 +0059 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199412271828.TAA27554@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: help install scsi-ibmdisk 3540 To: Lutz.Diettrich@unnet.wupper.de Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 19:27:57 +0059 (MET) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2efdd487.151@unnet.wupper.DE> from "Lutz Diettrich" at Dec 25, 94 09:22:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1167 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > exec(/stand/newfs) failed, code 9216 > alt-f2 : write error: 112639 > wtfs: Invalid argument. I have only seen such errors, if you specify to much blocks for a SCSI disk. Double check the maximum number of sectors that FreeBSD shows you with the documentation of the disk. If you don't have documentation simply try to make the maximum number of cylinders smaller. Some SCSI disks reports the the user usable sectors and some reports all sectors on the disk back. But most disks reserve some cylinders for internal use for holding parts of their microcode on them instead of the eprom and for some other housekeeping. So the user writable/usable sectors and cylinders are always smaller than the total amount of cylinders on the drive. The datasheets also mostly tell you something like total sectors and user-usable sectors or something alike. And if you are using a too high sector number the drive refuses to write on his own reserved sectors, hopefully :-). ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe