Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 18:56:44 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: sos@freebsd.org Cc: beckmann@nacamar.de, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MO drive Message-ID: <199707110926.SAA23634@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707110920.SAA23597@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jul 11, 97 06:50:22 pm"
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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)
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