From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 22:28:25 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A54016A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:28:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from marvin.muc.de (marvin.muc.de [193.149.48.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5F4B143D3F for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:28:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from 520017510473-0001@t-online.de) Received: (qmail 34521 invoked by alias); 28 Jan 2005 22:28:23 -0000 Delivered-To: mods-muc-lists-freebsd-hardware@moderators.muc.de Received: (qmail 34514 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2005 22:28:22 -0000 Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com (194.25.134.84) by marvin.muc.de with SMTP; 28 Jan 2005 22:28:22 -0000 Received: from imh00.t-online.com by mailout09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1CuebG-0006IG-00; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:28:22 +0100 Received: from news.t-online.com by imh00.t-online.com with esmtp id 1CuebG-0003Pe-00; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:28:22 +0100 Received: from news by news.t-online.com with local id 1CuebG-0004S1-00; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:28:22 +0100 To: muc-lists-freebsd-hardware@moderators.muc.de Path: news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: Felix Blank Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.hardware Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 23:28:21 +0100 Organization: T-Online Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <6BBE5C5603D0D611A06F0002A5D655640611399D@nyschx22psge.sch.ge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1106951301 01 17112 NEH6rB2v79wDkbf 050128 22:28:21 X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@t-online.de X-ID: TbkLoOZrgeqnMbmI2iIpsOtEyzFQvKMp+fKGWxPxzXMST7MTtoSG6l User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:51:54 +0000 Subject: Re: magneto-optical drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:28:25 -0000 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