From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Apr 23 08:05:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA09031 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:05:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from psiint.com (vv.psiint.com [204.189.53.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA09022 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by psiint.com (8.6.12/4.03) id IAA60931; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:04:38 -0700 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:04:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Walton To: Mike Witte cc: hardware Subject: Re: Magneto-optical disks In-Reply-To: <50453629@reliant.rhein.de> 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 Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Mike Witte wrote: > I keep getting similar messages with my Sony MOD: > > (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 This error shouldn't be a problem, since it's identical to the one I get. > sd2(ncr0:4:0): NOT READY asc:a,0 Error log overflow > sd2: could not get size > 0MB (0 512 byte sectors) > > Since it cannot get the number of blocks (block size is wrong, too. should > be 1024 bytes), I cannot use the drive at all. (or does someone know > better?). Anything I could do to use the drive? Beats me. This is just a shot in the dark, but is it possible that the parameters to newfs can be used to override the detected size? Oh, here's a thought... Is there a disk in the drive when you get that error? If not, try booting with a disk in there. 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 ==========================================================================