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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 1995 19:46:47 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, kaleb@x.org
Subject:   Re: pilot error on my part or feedback on the 2.1 snap
Message-ID:  <199508300946.TAA30070@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>But even more confounding is, when it finally seems willing to write 
>the label, to have the kernel panic with the message "biodone: buffer 
>not busy", sync the disk and reboot. So far this has happened several
>times and I have been otherwise unsuccessful in installing.

That was a bug in the SNAP.

>Is this somehow a pilot error or should I fall back to 2.0.5?

Label with 2.0.5, then install the SNAP.

>is an AC31200F. The disk itself is, as I recall, a Seagate Barracuda, 
>1222 meg drive, actual geometry reported during the boot probe is 2484
>Cyl, 16 H, 63 Sec, CMOS geometry is 621 Cyl, 64 H, 64 Sec. This machine 

63 sectors in the CMOS?  c/h/s format only goes up to sector 63.

Bruce



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