From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 26 07:41:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA15350 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 07:41:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from psiint.com (vv.psiint.com [204.189.53.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA15329 Tue, 26 Mar 1996 07:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by psiint.com (8.6.12/4.03) id HAA47802; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 07:40:12 -0800 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 07:40:11 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton To: Borja Marcos cc: freebsdelm@we.lc.ehu.es, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Magneto-optical disks In-Reply-To: <9603231844.AA15806@sol.we.lc.ehu.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 23 Mar 1996, Borja Marcos wrote: I think this should probably go into the FAQ or Handbook, and perhaps specifically list the DynaMO on the hardware compatibility list. > Does FreeBSD 2.1 (RELEASE) support Fujitsu DynaMO 230 drives? > If not... does it support any magneto-optical or WORM drive? Yes, it does. Dip switch 4 ("Device mode") has a factory setting of Closed ("Optical"). You need to set it to Open ("HDD"). That done, when you boot with -v, you will see something like: ahc0: target 6 synchronous at 5.0MB/s, offset = 0xf (ahc0:6:0): "FUJITSU M2512A 1314" type 0 removable SCSI 2 sd3(ahc0:6:0): Direct-Access sd3(ahc0:6:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB sks:c0,4 sd3 could not mode sense (4). Using ficticious geometry 217MB (446325 512 byte sectors) sd3(ahc0:6:0): with 217 cyls, 64 heads, and an average 32 sectors/track You can safely ignore the error message, and FreeBSD will treat it as a removable hard drive. On a side note, I've noticed that sysinstall scans all hard drives when it runs, whether or not they are mounted. Because of this, you will not be able to eject the MO while sysinstall is running, even if it is not mounted. Dave ========================================================================== David Walton Unix Programmer PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 ==========================================================================