From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 19 13:22:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15185 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:22:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (cagw1.att.com [192.128.52.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA15179 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: from caig1.fw.att.com by cagw1.att.com (AT&T/IPNS/UPAS-1.0) for freebsd.org!hackers sender dcn.att.com!sbabkin (dcn.att.com!sbabkin); Mon Oct 19 15:09 EDT 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com ([135.44.192.112]) by caig1.fw.att.com (AT&T/IPNS/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id PAA13370 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:18:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:18:25 -0400 Message-ID: To: ken@plutotech.com, kev@lab321.ru Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Fujitsu MO 640 (M2513A) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:18:21 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message