While shopping for shruberries, Trent McNair pondered:
> 
> 
> 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).
> 
	Could it be those jumpers in the back?  The only one I have is 
the one that tells the drive will provide power for the terminator (or 
something like that; I just had a piece of cake and am not thinking too 
much =).  Everything else is of.

> 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.
> 
	If you lived close to Gainesville, FL, we could slap it in my 
beast and see what is going on.

> Does anyone know some parameters upon formating that will make the drive 
> friendly with NeBSD? Just some generalities.
> 
	A club like those used by the cavemen.

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