From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 8 05:32:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24989 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 05:32:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA24984 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 05:32:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA01542; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 14:32:34 +0100 Message-ID: <366D2A71.7918B5A2@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 14:32:33 +0100 From: "José Mª Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del País Vasco - Dept. Electricidad y Electrónica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disklabel(8) problems with 640MB MO cartridge (2048-byte sectors) [CONCLUSION] References: <366AA88D.8FB094E6@we.lc.ehu.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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