From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 21 16:14:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F8037B404; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:14:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1M0EDZR007360; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 10:44:17 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Sony CD Writer model CRX175M From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Andrew Thompson Cc: Jan Stocker , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <1014316798.254.37.camel@sambo.sambolian.net.nz> References: <1014316798.254.37.camel@sambo.sambolian.net.nz> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 22 Feb 2002 11:44:13 +1130 Message-Id: <1014336863.3564.30.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 06:09, Andrew Thompson wrote: > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > fdisk: /boot/mbr: length must be a multiple of sector size > > > And I get the a few lines of "afd0: PREVENT_ALLOW - ILLEGAL REQUEST > > > asc=24 ascq=00 error=00" in my dmesg. Personally I'd say that is the problem. The ATA code is sending a request that the memory stick doesn't understand. Perhaps there are some resources online that may be able to point out what is necessary to talk to this device. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message