From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 21 19:03:08 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA15238 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 19:03:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from goodall.u.washington.edu (pharaoh@goodall.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.163]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA15233 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 19:03:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (pharaoh@localhost) by goodall.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.2+UW96.11) with SMTP id TAA27145 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 1996 19:03:03 -0800 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 19:03:03 -0800 (PST) From: "E. Lakin" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: older MO drive help Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've just purchased an older magneto-optical drive that i'd like to use w/ FreeBSD. The drive is a PMO-650, made by Pinnacle Micro. It uses 5 1/4" double-sided carts (of which i only have one...anybody know where to get more? =) When my system boots up, this is what is detected: (ahc0:3:0): "PINNACLE OHD-650 2.40" type 0 removable SCSI 2 sd2(ahc0:3:0): Direct-Access 40MB (576999 73 byte sectors) I have been unable to access the drive, however. Well, more correctly, i get the following error: # fdisk /dev/rsd2 sd2: Can't deal with 73 bytes logical blocks Debugger("sd") called. Cannot open disk /dev/rsd2 (Device not configured) the cart says 512 byte/sector. Also, DOS formats a side as 281 MB, not 40. So, i have no idea how, or if, i can use this drive! any help would be appreciated! --eric lakin