Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:01:42 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Reilly <reilly@zeta.org.au> To: lile@stdio.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fujitsu MO drives Message-ID: <199802010301.OAA12567@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980130151319.16478A-100000@heathers2.stdio.com>
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On 30 Jan, Larry S. Lile wrote: > I am looking at getting a Fujitsu DynaMO 640si > drive and I was wondering if it will work under > FreeBSD. > > Anybody out there using one? How is it working? > > Larry > lile@stdio.com > I've got a M2513A, which is basically that, I think. It works fine on 230M media, but the 640M media uses 2k sectors and I have had no success to date using these. I live in hope. I believe that there is a 540M media with 512-byte sectors, but I've not found a supplier in Sydney. There were some patches floating around a while ago that purported to allow different sector sizes, but they never worked for me, even though they installed cleanly. I've since removed the patches, so that I can track 2.2-STABLE more easily. It seems that several changes are going into 3.0-current that make disk accesses operate on 64-bit byte counts, rather than 32-bit block counts, so perhaps an upgrade to 3.0 at some stage will give me a fully working drive. In the mean time, I find it a really useful and easy-to-use backup medium. I keep one mounted all the time, with /usr/ports/distfiles symlinked to it, for archival of package original stuff. -- Andrew "The steady state of disks is full." -- Ken Thompson
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