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Subject: Re: Magneto-optical disks
To: dwalton@psiint.com (Dave Walton)
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 16:09:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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> 
> > Now it recognizes at least the number of sectors.
> > Only the sector size is still wrong:
> >   (ncr0:4:0): "SONY SMO-C501-00E 3.02" type 0 removable SCSI 1
> >   sd2(ncr0:4:0): Direct-Access
> >   sd2(ncr0:4:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB
> >   sd2 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry
> >   153MB (314569 512 byte sectors)
so what makes you so sure it's 1024 bytes?

In fact the sd driver cannot handle anything other than 512
bytes, (something to fix later)

maybe you should try configure the drive to report back as
an MO drive and use the mo driver.....

julian