Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 14:32:33 +0100 From: "José Mª Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel(8) problems with 640MB MO cartridge (2048-byte sectors) [CONCLUSION] Message-ID: <366D2A71.7918B5A2@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <366AA88D.8FB094E6@we.lc.ehu.es>
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José Mª Alcaide wrote: > > I have just installed a Fujitsu magneto-optical drive in my system, > which runs FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE. I'm trying to use 640MB MO cartridges; > these have a sector size of 2048 bytes. I read the od(4) man page > and it says that this driver can handle such disks. However, I'm having > serious problems with disklabel(8) that prevent me from using 640MB > cartridges (the 230MB ones, which have sectors of 512 bytes, work fine). > I'm sending this message as a future reference for other people who might have the same problem. Despite what the od(4) man page says, working with 2048-byte sector MO cartridges is not possible under FreeBSD 2.2.x. I have just switched to FreeBSD 3.0, and now I can use these cartridges without any problem, thanks to the CAM drivers. -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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