Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 16:06:23 +0200 From: Michael Beckmann <beckmann@nacamar.de> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MO drive Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970711160623.010fcae0@mail.nacamar.de> In-Reply-To: <199707110920.SAA23597@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <3.0.1.32.19970711110645.00ceb720@mail.nacamar.de>
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At 18:50 11.07.97 +0930, you wrote:
>> 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?
I am doing that via telnet. There are no other messages from the above
command; but when I try to enter /stand/sysinstall I get a message
od0: oops not queued
on the console and sysinstall exits silently.
>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 am not aware of 2.6 GB media with 512 byte blocks.
Maybe I need some extra kernel options to support 1024 byte/sec ?
Michael
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