[comp.sys.sun] Newfs failure

dinah@shell.UUCP (Dinah Anderson) (03/02/89)

I have a CDC 9720 disk drive connected to a Ciprico rimfire controller.  I
am inconsistently getting the following error when I try to run
/etc/newfs:

premature EOF
/etc/fsirand /dev/rrf1g
: failed, status = 256

Can someone help me understand what this error means? This does not happen
everytime on the same file system. I have not figured out why it
starts/stops working. 

Dinah Anderson 
Shell Oil Company, Information Center (713) 795-3287
...!{sun,psuvax,soma,rice,ut-sally,ihnp4}!shell!dinah

coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) (12/09/90)

I am in the process of installing SunOS 4.1.1 on our system.  When I went
to newfs the root filesystem xd0a, It printed out a warning stating:

1 sector unallocated 

and proceeded to make the partition but with one less sector than was in
the filesystem. Does anyone have ideas as to the cause of this message and
a solution.

Thanks alot
Sean Coleman
coleman@bldrdoc.gov

email is appreciated since I havent read all of the NEWS and I need an
answer soon.