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Date:      Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:49:51 +0900 (JST)
From:      ohashi@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Takeshi OHASHI)
To:        ycheng@sinica.edu.tw
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, ohashi@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: DVD-ram
Message-ID:  <199907070949.SAA02232@atohasi.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:45:33 JST". <19990707064533.29253.qmail@phi.sinica.edu.tw>

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ycheng>>In article <199907070339.VAA88466@panzer.kdm.org> you wrote:
ycheng>>>> 3.5" 650MB and 1.3GB MO drives should handle 512KB/sector(128MB,
ycheng>>>> 230MB, 540MB) and 2048KB/sector media(640MB, 1.3GB).

Ofcouse, my typo: 512KB/sector -> 512B/sector,  2048KB/sector -> 2048B/sector

ycheng>>> The CAM DA driver was specifically designed to handle various sector sizes,
ycheng>>> and should work fine with non-512 byte sector sizes.  If it doesn't, it
ycheng>>> needs to be fixed.

ycheng>>I use "Mitsubishi MCA 640" with Tekram 390F scsi card.
ycheng>>I guess one of error message is from
ycheng>>
ycheng>>/usr/src/sys/kern/subr_diskslice.c
ycheng>>	line 308 (or line 314, I am not very sure)
ycheng>>	which is:
ycheng>>	"dscheck: b_bcount %ld is not on a sector boundary (ssize %d)\n"
ycheng>>
ycheng>>I think this can help you to find why we say that 2048/sector won't work.

Thanks. But that was disklabel or slice problem. And also current ffs
and msdosfs need some patches for 2048 sector media.
--
Takeshi OHASHI
ohashi@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp
ohashi@jp.FreeBSD.ORG


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