From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Oct 14 04:15:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA09900 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 04:15:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id EAA09892 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 04:15:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from skirfir.ifi.uio.no (2602@skirfir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.212]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 13:14:56 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from localhost (dag-erli@localhost) by skirfir.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 11:14:54 GMT To: scsi@freebsd.org Subject: UFS on MO disks Organization: Not unless it can't be avoided. X-url: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 14 Oct 1997 13:14:49 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have an Olympus MO330S magneto-optical drive connected to my 2.2.1R system. When I mount it with a FAT-formatted disk in the drive, it works just fine (at least I've never experienced any data errors) but I get a bunch of "Illegal logical block address" or somesuch error messages on the console. (Sorry if the error messages are not exact; the box with the MO is two miles from here and I didn't remember to write them down) So I thought I'd try to format a disk with UFS and see if it worked better (plus the added benefit of a more efficient FS with proper access control and long file names). /stand/sysinstall slices it up nicely, but when I try to write changes from the labler, newfs dies with an "invalid argument" error. Now disklabel -r /dev/od0 won't work (though that isn't a big problem since I can copy an MBR back from another disk) Does anyone have experience newfs'ing MO disks? -- * Finrod (INTJ) * Unix weenie * dag-erli@ifi.uio.no * cellular +47-92835919 * RFC1123: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"