Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:55:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Walton <dwalton@psiint.com> To: Mike Witte <mike@galileo.rhein.de> Cc: hardware <hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Magneto-optical disks Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960426134034.52238B-100000@vv.psiint.com> In-Reply-To: <50453637@reliant.rhein.de>
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On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Mike Witte wrote: > DW>Oh, here's a thought... Is there a disk in the drive when you get that > DW>error? If not, try booting with a disk in there. > > I tried it, and it works. Kinda thought it might. When I first got my MO I was running Windows 3.11, and discovered that starting Windows without a disk in the drive guaranteed a lockup. I very quickly got into the habit of just leaving a disk in there until I want to stick a different one in. As a result, I've never tried booting Win95 or FreeBSD without a disk in the MO, because there is ALWAYS one in there. > 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) What's the capacity of the drive supposed to be? In any case, you may not need to worry about that too much. Try mounting a disk and see if it works. If it does, be happy. :) If it doesn't... I don't know enough about the internals of FreeBSD to take this much further. Maybe someone else here has some ideas. 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 ==========================================================================
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