Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:28:21 +0100 From: Felix Blank <felix@tasha.homeip.net> To: muc-lists-freebsd-hardware@moderators.muc.de Subject: Re: magneto-optical drives Message-ID: <cteea5$gmo$01$1@news.t-online.com> References: <6BBE5C5603D0D611A06F0002A5D655640611399D@nyschx22psge.sch.ge.com>
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Sherman, Michael \(GE Energy\ wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I am not sure whether it is the right thread for my kind of question. If >> it isn't please let me know where to post it. >> I was wondering if any of the people on this list were able to mount and >> read (don't need writing) successfully Maxtor magneto-optical drives, or >> any magneto-optical drive for that matter. Any help would be greatly >> appreciated. I have a MO in operation. But "real" usage works only up to a capacity of 540 MBytes. The reason for this behaviour is, that the sector size is 512 Bytes up to this size. Larger MOs use 2048 Bytes / sector. On any attempt to use "disklabel" the kernel complains badly about wrong sizes. The only solution i found is to generate a ISO filesystem and mount this - read only of course ;-) Regards, Felix -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Felix Blank Munich Germany E-mail: felix@tasha.homeip.net
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