On Sun, 14 Jan 1996 11:16:10 -0700 (MST) 
 Trent McNair <trent@rmci.net> wrote:

 > I have had a terrible morning.  My drive still does't work, I think it's 
 > a hardware problem.  I can write very small programs to the swap 
 > partition, but anything over about 50k fails.  When I try to run fsck I 
 > get all kinds of errors (i.e. cant read, cant write, soft error, blah blah).

Ick.  This is an ESDI disk behind an Emulex MD21?

 > So today I'm going over to my brothers house to use his ps scsi 
 > controller to format my drive.  I would be worried about doing something 
 > wrong but I'm about to chuck the drive out the window anyway.

Heh.  If you do that, make sure to take pictures :-)  (Sorry, couldn't 
resist...)

 > Does anyone know some parameters upon formating that will make the drive 
 > friendly with NeBSD? Just some generalities.

NetBSD is pretty flexible.  It can ask the disk the kind of things it 
needs to know.  When I format disks, I still tend to use 512-byte 
sectors, mostly because there's still code straggling around that is 
DEV_BSIZE-centric.  Other than that...

Good luck with it!

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