From owner-freebsd-scsi Tue Oct 14 10:40:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA04457 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:40:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA04450 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:40:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA29498 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for scsi@FreeBSD.ORG); Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:40:32 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id TAA01460; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:14:53 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199710141814.TAA01460@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: UFS on MO disks To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smxrgrav) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:14:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Dag-Erling Coidan Smxrgrav" at Oct 14, 97 01:14:49 pm X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Dag-Erling Coidan Smxrgrav wrote... > 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) Sounds like the driver has gotten bad geometry data or something like that from the drive. > 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? Yep. I have a Digital RWZ01 (a Sony 650Mb 5.25" in disguise) and that worked just fine with UFS some time back. But the RWZ reports itself as type 0 (?) so just like a normal random access device. And therefore uses the sd driver. Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda