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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!news.lynx.bc.ca!usenet From: "S. L. Chan" <slechan@lynx.bc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Elite 9 Gig from Seagate Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 18:44:47 -0700 Organization: Delta Force Enterprises Lines: 26 Message-ID: <324F260F.1468@lynx.bc.ca> References: <52jhln$68h@doctor.nl2k.edmonton.ab.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: le1.lynx.bc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Which version of BSDI you are using? I know on 2.0, you can newfs a 9 G drive, but when you do a fsck, it fail. However, it works find on 2.0.1 or higher. Also, I found I cannot newfs a 9 G drive to give more inodes (other than the default inode size). S.L Chan The Doctor wrote: > > I recently purchased a Seagate Elite 9 Gig from ASA, used disksetup to lay out > a 1 G / partition, a 2 G swap and a 6 G /usr partition. > > I was able to newfs the drive correctly, but I transfer data to the > 6 G /usr partition, I was getting sn number : bad media error. > > What am I doing wrong? > -- > God, Queen and Country Member - Liberal International > NEVER Satan, President and Republic Member - Edmonton Heritage Nazarene > Hating Bachelor's Living Member - Any Edmonton PC User Group > Republicanism is Satanism: Satan wants to usurp God from his throne just like > republicans are out to dismiss monarchies. > http://doctor.nl2k.edmonton.ab.ca/~doctor Save the World and Civilization; REPUBLICS DISSOLVE! USA, call a referendum to dissolve the Union and vote YES!!!