From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 14 12:43:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.timandpatrick.com (cx33461-a.chnd1.az.home.com [24.1.216.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2823D15208 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:43:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vagner@www.timandpatrick.com) Received: (from vagner@localhost) by www.timandpatrick.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00491 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:42:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from vagner) From: George Vagner Message-Id: <199908141942.MAA00491@www.timandpatrick.com> Subject: vinalbuf? To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:42:19 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a wierd crash today while trying to format a scsi zip disk in mformat. i made a drive in mtools.conf called Z: file="/dev/sd1c" and attempted to format a zip disk. mformat -t 96 -h 64 -s 32 z: the zip drive ran for a sec and then a message came up on the console saying vinalbufs dirty buffers syncing disks 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 13 giving up automatic reboot in 15 seconds the message in my telnet console was buffer flush short write short write now its fscking because it didnt shutdown correctly. what did i do wrong? please reply directly i am not on list anymore To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message