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Subject: Install fails, but newfs worked
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Trying to install FreeBSD in a machine with Adaptec 2120 SCSI controller.
Newfs finished without errors, but when the installer tried to write the 
different parts it fails with "write failure". Have tried it twice.

Wouldn't any/most errors have been caught by newfs?