From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 11 02:21:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA28279 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 02:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA28274 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 02:20:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id SAA23597; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 18:50:23 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707110920.SAA23597@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: MO drive In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970711110645.00ceb720@mail.nacamar.de> from Michael Beckmann at "Jul 11, 97 11:06:45 am" To: beckmann@nacamar.de (Michael Beckmann) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 18:50:22 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Beckmann stands accused of saying: > At 11:03 11.07.97 +0930, you wrote: > ># disklabel -rwB od0 auto > ># newfs /dev/rod0c > > test: {46} disklabel -rwB od0 auto > test: {47} newfs /dev/rod0c > newfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Invalid argument > newfs: /dev/rod0c: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified Are you doing this on the console? Are there any (other?) error messages that you're not showing? It looks as though there may be some problem with 1024-byte sectors; Soren would know about that. (cc'd) I'm using an MO here with 512byte sectors, so I can't think of anything else (other than maybe that your disk is write-protected?). > Michael -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[