From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 11 07:07:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA08058 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 07:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.nacamar.de (mail.nacamar.de [194.162.162.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA08050 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 07:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsfeed (newsfeed.nacamar.de [194.162.162.196]) by mail.nacamar.de (8.8.6/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA16137; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 16:06:47 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970711160623.010fcae0@mail.nacamar.de> X-Sender: petzi@mail.nacamar.de X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 16:06:23 +0200 To: Michael Smith From: Michael Beckmann Subject: Re: MO drive Cc: hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199707110920.SAA23597@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <3.0.1.32.19970711110645.00ceb720@mail.nacamar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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