From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 12:28:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glitch.crosswinds.net (glitch.crosswinds.net [209.208.163.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BC3D37B671 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn69-ras34.screaming.net [212.188.129.69]) by glitch.crosswinds.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA20863; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:28:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john253@crosswinds.net) From: John Murphy To: media@mail1.nai.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install from 4.1 CDROM failed Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 20:27:44 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: john253@crosswinds.net Message-ID: <74cits8iue1albcnv5c8paeiobje7tu3ks@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG media@mail1.nai.net wrote: >At 1:06 AM +0100 10/01/00, John Murphy wrote: >> >>That sounds very recent for a CD, so there shouldn't be a problem. > >Thank you very much for your response. A recent master can still be = bad, >and a good master can still create a bad replicant. However, I want to >explore other possible causes before I return the CD-ROM to Walnut = Creek. Granted, though I always tend to suspect It's me, or my hardware first. Can you copy the disk before you return it? No-one will mind. >>None of which should have been necessary. >>Newfs'ing the slice should've sufficed. > >That's what I thought, but I decided to erase it under DOS just to make >sure. At this point the disk has been erased and reformatted several = times. > Having been a DOS'er myself, I can recommend Ranish Partition Manager = from: http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part (appologies to people here who may be tired of me mentioning it :) If you try it, I'd be interested to know what it makes of your drive. Warnings are red. > >It's only a 3G drive. Should be as easy as falling off a log; unless the drive actually has bad blocks, in which case you may be able to resort to the wd driver. = 'Copeing' by this method is beyond me. >I think finding out what "panic: lockmgr: non-zero exclusive >count" means may be the at the heart of a solution. I will post a = separate >question. Good luck. John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message