Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!ames!apple!stacey
From: stacey@Apple.COM (Stacey Irvine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re:  Generic disk Fatal Error
Keywords: SCSI, pname, extra file systems
Message-ID: <33675@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 89 19:12:53 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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mjr@welch.jhu.edu writes:

> I have a MACII with 3 Apple 80SC drives hanging off it, at SCSI IDs
> 1,5, and 6. For some reason, when I try to first access a file system, I
> get this nice:
>
>       "Disk Read cXd0s0 Error: Cannot select SCSI Device
>        generic disk cXd0s0 Fatal Error: Logical block 0, physical block 0"
> 
> and my fsck hangs. Later I can mount it fine, and if I unmount it and fsck
> it it behaves "normally".

I can recreate the same error message by trying fsck on a file system before
associating a slice number with that partition.  

Do you have an /etc/ptab file?  What's in it?  Do the slice numbers in 
/etc/ptab match what's in /etc/fstab?  Do the extra drives show up if you
try pname without any arguments?


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