Re: newfs failing

Hi;

        do this before newfs:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1a bs=8k count=1

        This should clear the first 8k bootblock and you should be able to newfs wd1.

Teh

On Friday 12 September 2003 02:38, Jaime Vargas wrote:
> Hello all I had a repeatable problem formating a new disk with newfs.
> I had tried with different disk geometries, but newfs always hangs at
> different point when creating the file system.
>
> BTW the bios doesn't recognized the disk geometry and the default
> one used by fdisk only uses the first 8GB. So I manually edited the
> geometry with the parameters shown below.
>
> I would appreciate any help as I had spent three days and I still have
> no success. The HD is a SimpleTech MCHD/20 20GB P/N: M022176
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jaime
>
>
> OpenBSD 3.3 (RAMDISK_CD) #40: Sat Mar 29 13:33:25 MST 2003
> deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD
Received on Wed Sep 17 04:53:43 2003