Re: fsck and newfs problem

[Ashley M <ashleym@geocities.com>]

a) dmesg
wdc1 at isa0 port 0x170-0x177 irq 15
atapibus1 at wdc1
wd1 at wdc1 drive 0: <Conner Peripherals 1620MB - CFS1621A>
wd1: 1548MB, 3146 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 3171270 sec total
wd1: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing

b) disklabel
# using MBR partition 3: type A6 off 63 (0x3f) size 3165057 (0x304b81)
# /dev/rwd1c:
type: ESDI
disk: 
label: Conner Periphera
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 3146
total sectors: 3171168
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

16 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:   368865       63    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0*-
365)
  b:    41328   368928      swap                        # (Cyl.  366 -
406)
  c:  3171168        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
3145)
  d:  1024128   410256    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  407 -
1422)
  e:  1736784  1434384    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 1423 -
3145)

dd worked okay.

On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Marshall Midden wrote:
> Dunno what OS level, or what, but please check
> a) the drive geometry as reported in dmesg.
> b) the partition layout (disklabel sd2) [guessing]
> 
> Make sure that the drive geometry is less than or equal to disk.
> Maybe try: dd if=/dev/rsd1c of=/dev/null bs=64k
> If that crashes, then something if fishy with the hardware.