On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:58:05  
 M. Warner Losh wrote:
>I just spent a very frurstrating afternoon.  I have an old 1460A card
>that I tried to use with my MC/R430 (think Mobile Pro 780 - the modem
>and VGA out).  However, although the 5 different disks I tried were
>probed correctly, it hung every time I tried to do a newfs (although
>the disklabel and fdisk worked).  When I was 'hung' I mean 'hung the
>machine solid.'  I've fallen back to using a ATA laptop disk to do the build that I wanted to do.
>
>Has anybody else seen this?  

Not exactly the same problem, since not scsi, but awhile back i bought a 9 Gig IBM PCMCIA Travelstar to use with my z50.  IIRC, the same thing happened to me, but without the crashes: disklabel and fdisk worked, but newfs didn't work.  My z50 didn't crash, however.  I lost patience quickly, and just formatted the drive in an i386 laptop.  The drive's been working fine with the z50 ever since.  In fact, it's compiling -current right now.  Too bad I never understood why the z50's newfs didn't seem to work.

Kindest regards,

Tom



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