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Date:      Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:18:21 -0400
From:      sbabkin@dcn.att.com
To:        ken@plutotech.com, kev@lab321.ru
Cc:        wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Fujitsu MO 640 (M2513A)
Message-ID:  <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EE018C1D65@dcn71.dcn.att.com>

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> From:	Kenneth D. Merry [SMTP:ken@plutotech.com]
> 
> > > support for devices with sector sizes other than 512 bytes.
> >
> > This device has jumper: Magneto Optical mode/hard disk mode.
> > I will try to turn off MO mode.
> 
> Actually, I think you might have better luck running in MO mode and
> trying
> the od driver.  The od driver is designed to work with MO type drives.
> 
A yet simpler method may be to get disks with 512-byte
sectors :-) They are available, for example, from
Maxoptix. The MO drives themselves can commonly work
with either type of disks, so all that is needed
are proper disks.

-Sergey

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