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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Optical disk driver update and enhancement patch.
To: akiyama@kme.mei.co.jp (Shunsuke Akiyama)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 10:50:54 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <9602140829.AA05282@kmegate.kme.mei.co.jp> from "Shunsuke Akiyama" at Feb 14, 96 05:29:35 pm
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> Hi FreeBSD hackers,
> 
> I made optical disk driver update(1) and enhancement(2) patch for
> 2.2-960130-SNAP.  It's not for -current, sorry.
> 
> Here are brief descriptions.
> 
> (2) enhancement patch
> 
>   * UFS works on 1024 byte/sector optical disk media.
> 
>   Known problem:
>     UFS build on 1024 byte/sector media can not mount as root
>     filesystem.

What are the failure symptoms?  Is it the BIOS-based boot blocks,
or does the kernel not recognize the device?

I can help you fix this one...



					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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