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Date:      Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:25:18 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        beckmann@nacamar.net (Michael Beckmann)
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MO drive and media with 1024 byte/sector
Message-ID:  <199707141825.UAA01104@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970714172339.00907db0@mail.nacamar.de> from "Michael Beckmann" at Jul 14, 97 05:23:39 pm

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As Michael Beckmann wrote...

> I had posted this to hardware@freebsd.org the other day. Has anyone gotten
> a Sony SMO 544 drive to work properly under FreeBSD ? I have not yet
> succeeded in making a filesystem on it. For example:
> 
> test: {46} disklabel -rwB od0 auto
> test: {47} newfs /dev/rod0c
> newfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Invalid argument
> newfs: /dev/rod0c: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified
> 
> This is a 2.2-970703-RELENG system.
> 
> dmesg says:
> 
> (ahc0:6:0): "SONY SMO-F541+3 1.13" type 7 removable SCSI 2
> od0(ahc0:6:0): Optical 1243MB (1273011 1024 byte sectors)
> 
> I wonder if it would be possible to low-level format the media to 512
> bytes/sector. Or can I get FreeBSD to use 1024 bytes/sector formatted media
> ? It looks as if the format were the problem. I am using 2.6 GB media from
> Maxell (1.3 GB per side).

To the best of my knowledge the disks are hard sectored. I've seen media
with 512 and 1024 bytes/sector. Maybe you can borrow a 512 byte/sec disk?

My DEC RWZ01 (600~ Mb) works just fine with FreeBSD. It is set to
emulate a type 0 (? ; at least direct access device) so that I can handle
it with the sd driver just like a normal magnetic disk. The RWZ01 is
a Sony-something MO with different firmware.

Wilko
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