cc@capmkt.COM (Charlie Conklin) (03/05/91)
I am having a problem similar to that of a recent posting by ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca and answered by andrewd@cs.tamu.edu. I have an external disk that I am trying to hook up to a NextStation, running 2.0, and am having some problems. The fact that I do not yet have the extended release (and man pages!) does not help much. I have a FUJISTU 2266S, and am using a disktab entry for one partition that was posted to the net recently. When I had trouble with that, I also tried using no disktab entry, with similar results. Running scsimodes gives me the following: SCSI information for /dev/rsd1a Drive type: FUJITSU M2266S-512 512 bytes per sector 85 sectors per track 15 tracks per cylinder 1658 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders) 3 spare sectors per cylinder 15 alternate tracks per volume 2107703 usable sectors on volume And the disktab entry I have looks like this: # Fujitsu M2266S 1.2GB drive with 512 byte sectors FUJITSU-M2266S-512|Fuji 1.2 GB w/512 byte sectors as 1 partition:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#1658:nt#15:ns#42:ss#1024rm#3600:\ :fp#630:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a:\ :pa#0:sa#1043910:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD: When I run sdform it formats the disk without a peep, but when I then try to do disk -i -t FUJITSU-M2266S-512 /dev/rsd1a, I get errors to the console of the form: sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid = 0x1c48, retry 1 sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid = 0x1c48, retry 2 .... sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL And the program (disk) errors: disk -i -t FUJITSU-M2266S-512 /dev/rsd1a disk name: FUJITSU-M2266S-512 disk type: fixed_rw_scsi writing disk label creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1043910 42 15 8192 1024 32 10 60 4096 t write error: 1043909 wtfs: I/O error /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1) Anybody got any suggestions? I seem to get the same thing if I simply use the disk program to try and change the disk labelname, or if I do the sdform, disk -i .. cycle using the default disktab. Also, using disk to read and write sectors seems ok, but then if I use od to go look at those sectors I can't seem to see any change in the data. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Charlie Conklin cc@capmkt.com