Re: problem creating filesystems on 10GB drive

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

You haven't indicated what you are trying to accomplish, or exactly
how you have attempted to accomplish it, but hopefully, it is covered
here:

http://www.holland-consulting.net/tech/OBSDCommProbs.html#bigdisk

(I'm assuming you are running i386 here...not aware of any other
platform using the wd driver.)

Nick.

Rich Fernandez wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to install 2.9 on a 10gb drive.
> disklabel shows the drive as being only 1GB (c: 2062368)
> 
> I used the "g" option and told it to read geometry info from the BIOS (which
> reports it correctly), but then after I've created all my
> filesystems and wq'ed, newfs chokes:
> 
>         wd0f id not found writing fsbn 208844 (wd0 bn 4980149; cn 309 tn 254 sn 62)
>         write error: 208844
>         wtfs: input/output error
> 
> I searched the archives and found similar errors, but didn't find any
> solutions posted in response.
> The FAQ, likewise didn't have an answer.
> 
> Can someone please point me in the right direction?
> Thanks!
> 
> Rich

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