[ BTW, I've taken netbsd-help of the CC list.  In the future, let's
  try and keep the cross-posts down... this is clearly an
  an hp300-specific problem.  --thorpej ]

On Fri, 6 Dec 1996 16:49:34 +0100 (MET) 
 Andreas Brusinsky <brusinsk@ibdr.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:

 > Does it mean that I can not make a new filesystem on the disk with the raw 
 > device?
 > 
 > If I do newfs /dev/sd3a it works but with /dev/rsd3a it stops soon
 > reporting input/output errors.

Can you please send me the complete output of "dmesg"?

I'm very curious why it's "working" if you use the block device (which
you really shouldn't use for anything but mounting a filesystem.)

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