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Subject: Re: Fatal code=5888
Message-ID: <3i6kk5$h0f@agate.berkeley.edu>
From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: 19 Feb 1995 05:23:17 GMT
References: <60.11345.5307.0N1D081E@canrem.com>
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In article <60.11345.5307.0N1D081E@canrem.com>,
Barnaby Ng <barnaby.ng@canrem.com> wrote:
>The installation program let me partition and assign my drives, but
>when I proceed, it gives me the following message:-
>
>Fatal
>Exec (/stand/newfs) failed, code=5888


This is a bug in the >2GB drive handling which was in 2.0-RELEASE; it only
happens when you have aggressive cylinder translation turned on.

It's been fixed in 950210-SNAP.

					Jordan