From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 9: 2:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hromeo.algonet.se (hromeo.algonet.se [194.213.74.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C3E437B423 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 09:02:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gus@algonet.se) Received: (qmail 13883 invoked from network); 11 May 2001 18:02:30 +0200 Received: from delenn.tninet.se (HELO algonet.se) (195.100.94.104) by hromeo.algonet.se with SMTP; 11 May 2001 18:02:30 +0200 Received: from laptop (du176-253.ppp.algonet.se [195.100.253.176]) by delenn.tninet.se (BLUETAIL Mail Robustifier 2.2.2) with ESMTP id 284624.596949.989delenn-s0 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 18:02:29 +0200 From: Gustaf Tham To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: 640 MB MO-drive w 2048b / sector problem Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 18:00:53 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 trialware MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I got the impression that MO-drives with 2048 byte sectors=20 could be used with 4.2 "out of the box".=20 I have a SCSI connected Fujitsu M2513EL, as reported by camcontrol. =46ormatting with fdisk or dd gives lengthy error messages, and using disklabel with customized disktab: http://freebsd.netwain.com/gem_html/F/A000204F.html --only gives more helpful error messages, like "slices extending beyond end of disk". That disktab entry uses the od driver -- should I get that? I'm using the da driver. I guess disks with 512 bytes/sectors will work witout these problems? Then perhaps the simplest solution is using only 540MB disks. Any help appreciated Gustaf Tham Sweden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message