Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 23:40:16 +0200 From: Gustaf Tham <gus@algonet.se> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: 640 MB MO-drive -- use od or da driver? Message-ID: <b248ht0oga3u3b20rgrgcgfdqgmebrrvv0@4ax.com>
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Hello all,
I got no reply last time, so here we go again:
I have a 640MB SCSI-connected MO-drive. That means 2048b / sectors.
Cannot the da driver handle that?
The drive is reported at boot time as da0, and:
606MB 310352 2048byte sectors 64h 32s/t151c
When I mount the disk FAT-formatted, I get:
"da0s1: slice starts beyond end of disk: rejecting it
(repeated twice for each slice until:)
da0s4: slice extends beyond end of disk: truncating from 3317410816 to
310352 sectors.
In spite of these messages, it works!
Trying to disklabel, newfs and mount gives the same error messages,
and does NOT work; the FAT file system is left untouched.
I use custom disktab entries.
=46rom several postings I got the impression that the da driver should
be able to handle MO-drives with more than 512 b/sector.
Am I doing something wrong?
Or must I use Shunsuke Akiyama's od driver?
In that case, why was that driver removed from the later distros?
I suppose I could resort to using 540MB disks, but they are more
expensive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Gustaf Tham
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