> From: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <pappires@vortex.leg.ufrj.br>
> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 11:46:47 -0300 (WDT)

> Hello, everyone.
> 
> First of all, I would like to thank everyone who helped me (specially
> der Mouse): I am finally booting from the disk.
> 
> Unfortunately, I am still having problems with this disk.  It seems to
> me that it is *full* of bad sectors (surpring to me, as it is a new
> 2.1GB Micropolis 4221).  While running fsck (manually, of course, because
> that called on init seldom succeeds) I get many wierd messages like:
> 
> ncr5380_command: short transfer: wanted 10 got 6.
> si(0,0,0)-28,0,0,2b,9c,9d,0,0,1,0-
> sd0(si0:0:0): medium error, info = 2858166 (decimal), data = [...]

No, your disk is fine.  That is a SCSI protocol disagreement.
There is a later version of the kernel with a work-around:

	ftp.netbsd.org: /ftp/pub/NetBSD/arch/sun3/install-11-p1

Gordon Ross