damn it

FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE (mini iso) running on a pentium-pro i386 133mhz, 1.2GB hdd 
ide0, 2.0Gb hdd ide1 same physical type hdd. minimum possible install.
48mb swap, 128mb /, 256mb /var, 256mb /tmp, 512mb /usr (ide0)

following the handbook i attempted to use /stand/sysinstall to disklabel & newf
s ide1 but received the following errors.

Feb 6 20:20:30 buffy /kernel: pid 134 (sh), uid 0: exited on signal 11
spec_getpages:(#ad/0x20010) I/O read failure: (error=22) bp 0xc17f5e00 vp 0xc3f
f5ec0
        size: 16384, resid: 16384, a_count: 16384, valid: 0x0
        nread: 0, reqpage: 2, pindex: 73, pcount: 4
vm_fault: pager read error: pid 144(sh)

usr: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
buffy# Feb 6 20:20:34 buffy /kernel: pid 144 (sh), uid 0 on /usr: out of inodes
buffy# df -hi
spec_getpages:(#ad/0x20010) I/O read failure: (error=22) bp 0xc17f5e00 vp 0xc3f
f5ec0
        size: 63488, resid: 63488, a_count: 63060, valid: 0x0
        nread: 0, reqpage: 0, pindex: 0, pcount: 16
/bin/df: Input/output error.
buffy#
nothing wrong with the hardware by the way i've tried both the hdd's on other o
perating systems and they're fine.

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