From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 11 02:26:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA28427 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 02:26:53 -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 CAA28422; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 02:26:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id SAA23634; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 18:56:44 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707110926.SAA23634@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: MO drive In-Reply-To: <199707110920.SAA23597@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jul 11, 97 06:50:22 pm" To: sos@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 18:56:44 +0930 (CST) Cc: beckmann@nacamar.de, 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 Smith stands accused of saying: > 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?). I lied. I'll cc: Soren on this one though 8) -- ]] 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 [[