# newfs /dev/rsd0a
/dev/rsd0a: 123.0MB in 251840 sectors of 512 bytes
4 cylinder groups of 30.74MB, 3935 blocks, 7872 inodes each
newfs: wtfs: write error on block 16: Input/output error

Same error. I never seen this error before and I've used newfs before.

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Edgar Pettijohn
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/30/16 18:15, Monah Baki wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Trying to newfs an old 128MB flashcard on my OpenBSD 5.7, so I can
>> install OpenBSd on it to run on a Soekris.
>>
>> # dmesg | grep sd0
>> sd0 at scsibus5 targ 1 lun 0: <Generic-, Multi-Card, 1.00> SCSI4
>> 0/direct removable serial.0bda0309201209010309
>> sd0: 123MB, 512 bytes/sector, 251904 sectors
>>
>> # disklabel sd0
>> # /dev/rsd0c:
>> type: SCSI
>> disk: vnd-a43c9e59
>> label:
>> duid: 770fe5cc30020c20
>> flags:
>> bytes/sector: 512
>> sectors/track: 63
>> tracks/cylinder: 255
>> sectors/cylinder: 16065
>> cylinders: 15
>> total sectors: 251904
>> boundstart: 0
>> boundend: 0
>> drivedata: 0
>
>
> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105156642420865&w=2
> The math doesn't add up.
>
>> 3 partitions:
>> #                size           offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
>>    a:           251840               64  4.2BSD   1024  8192    0
>>    c:           251904                0  unused
>>
>>
>> # fdisk sd0
>> Disk: sd0       geometry: 15/255/63 [251904 Sectors]
>> Offset: 0       Signature: 0xAA55
>>              Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
>>   #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   0: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ]
>> unused
>>   1: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ]
>> unused
>>   2: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ]
>> unused
>> *3: A6      0   1   2 -     14 254  63 [          64:      240911 ]
>> OpenBSD
>>
>>
>> # newfs -S 512 /dev/rsd0a
>> /dev/rsd0a: 123.0MB in 251840 sectors of 512 bytes
>> 4 cylinder groups of 30.74MB, 3935 blocks, 7872 inodes each
>> newfs: wtfs: write error on block 16: Input/output error
>
> Have you tried:
> #newfs /dev/rsd0a
>
> I've done a few flashcards and never had to use anything but the default.
>
>
>>
>> I tried 3 other 128MB flashcards, and a 32MB too, same results.
>>
>> Any help will be highly appreciated, and if you need any additional info
>> too.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Monah

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