Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:20:50 -0700 (MST) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: kris@hiwaay.net (Kris Kirby) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 512 / 2048 switchable CDROM (Pioneer DRM-600) Message-ID: <199911162320.QAA68076@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <3831B5A2.5C66CC59@hiwaay.net> from Kris Kirby at "Nov 16, 1999 01:50:58 pm"
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Kris Kirby wrote... > I've got a Pioneer DRM-600 (on the front panel) which IDs as a DRM-604 > over the SCSI bus. On the back panel, it says DRM-600-A. It has a switch > for 512 or 2048. I suspect this is for compatiblity with Sun > workstations. FreeBSD is going to need 2048, right? I ask because the > last time I connected it (and I don't remember what the switch settings > were) I got messages from the kernel telling me that it required Vendor > Specific commands. In general, yeah, you'll want to use 2K sectors with FreeBSD. I don't think the CD driver particularly cares about the sector size, but I'm not sure how the cd9660 code would react to a non-2K sectors size. (You can always try it and find out. :) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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