Re: Which NetBSD on a VS3176?

[Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost>]

Holm Tiffe wrote:
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Now I have disklabel/newfs problems again.

I've booted the NetBSD from the IBM0663 on DKA0 and want to install
it on the 4GB Disk on DKA100.

vs3176# disklabel sd1
# /dev/rsd1c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: M2954S-512
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 165
tracks/cylinder: 9
sectors/cylinder: 1485
cylinders: 5714
# /dev/rsd1c:
type: SCSI
disk: SCSI disk
label: M2954S-512
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 165
tracks/cylinder: 9
sectors/cylinder: 1485
cylinders: 5714
total sectors: 8498506
rpm: 7200
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:    409600        16     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.      0*-
275*)
 b:    262144    409616       swap                     # (Cyl.    275*-
452*)
 c:   8498506         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -
5722*)
 d:   1024000    671760     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.    452*-
1141*)
 e:   6393146   1695760     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.   1141*-
5447*)
 f:    409600   8088906     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.   5447*-
5722*)
 g:    8498506   0      unused      0     0     0  # (Cyl.   5447*-
5722*)  
 h:    8498506   0      unused      0     0     0  # (Cyl.   5447*-
5722*)
/tmp//EdDk.a00665a: 29 lines, 1031 characters.
vs3176# newfs /dev/rsd1a
/dev/rsd1a: 200.0MB (409600 sectors) block size 8192, fragment size 1024
        using 5 cylinder groups of 40.00MB, 5120 blks, 9920 inodes.
[1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) newfs /dev/rsd1a
vs3176# newfs /dev/rsd1f
/dev/rsd1f: 200.0MB (409600 sectors) block size 8192, fragment size 1024
        using 5 cylinder groups of 40.00MB, 5120 blks, 9920 inodes.
[1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) newfs /dev/rsd1f
vs3176# newfs /dev/rsd1e
/dev/rsd1e: 3121.7MB (6393144 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
        using 16 cylinder groups of 195.11MB, 12487 blks, 24704 inodes.
panic: rmpage: pm 0x8088d760 br 0x80fc7560
cpu0: Begin traceback...
panic: rmpage: pm 0x8088d760 br 0x80fc7560
Stack traceback : 
         Process is executing in user space.
cpu0: End traceback...

dump to dev 20,1 not possible


 83 BOOT SYS
?40 NOSUCHDEV
 84 FAIL
>>> 


The Label was created with NetBSD this time, the disk was zeroed out on the
first 100 blocks. Tried it with a label without the g/h partitions before,
results are mostly the same. Newfs is core dumping.

So what the heck is the similarity that prevents sysinst from doing his job
and the disklabel/newfs stuff on a running system? What could be different
to other VAXes? This problem seems to not exist when one runs NetBSD in
simh, but both the VS3100/M38 and the M76 (CVAX and Rigel) have it in
common.

The simh VAX3900 is running on ra disks (ra90) and the Vaxstations on
the ncr SCSI Controller. Could this be possibly the problem?
I think to remember of similar Problems with the VS4000/90.
If the system is up and running, it runs well...

Any hints? Ideas?

Regards,

Holm
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