From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 31 21:07:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA14098 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 21:07:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA14088 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 21:07:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@zeta.org.au) Received: from gurney.reilly.home (d8.syd2.zeta.org.au [203.26.11.8]) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA29245; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 16:05:04 +1100 Received: (from andrew@localhost) by gurney.reilly.home (8.8.7/8.8.5) id OAA12567; Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:01:42 +1100 (EST) From: Andrew Reilly Message-Id: <199802010301.OAA12567@gurney.reilly.home> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:01:42 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: Fujitsu MO drives To: lile@stdio.com cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" 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