From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 14:40:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from algonet.se (garibaldi.tninet.se [195.100.94.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F7037B449 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 14:40:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gus@algonet.se) Received: from laptop (du41-252.ppp.algonet.se [195.100.252.41]) by garibaldi.tninet.se (BLUETAIL Mail Robustifier 2.2.2) with ESMTP id 554209.172424.991garibaldi-s2 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 23:40:24 +0200 From: Gustaf Tham To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: 640 MB MO-drive -- use od or da driver? Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 23:40:16 +0200 Message-ID: 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 List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I got no reply last time, so here we go again: I have a 640MB SCSI-connected MO-drive. That means 2048b / sectors. Cannot the da driver handle that? The drive is reported at boot time as da0, and: 606MB 310352 2048byte sectors 64h 32s/t151c When I mount the disk FAT-formatted, I get: "da0s1: slice starts beyond end of disk: rejecting it (repeated twice for each slice until:) da0s4: slice extends beyond end of disk: truncating from 3317410816 to 310352 sectors. In spite of these messages, it works! Trying to disklabel, newfs and mount gives the same error messages, and does NOT work; the FAT file system is left untouched. I use custom disktab entries. =46rom several postings I got the impression that the da driver should be able to handle MO-drives with more than 512 b/sector. Am I doing something wrong? Or must I use Shunsuke Akiyama's od driver? In that case, why was that driver removed from the later distros? I suppose I could resort to using 540MB disks, but they are more expensive. Any help would be greatly appreciated Gustaf Tham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message