From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Mar 18 8:27:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCE801542C for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:26:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA06644; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:25:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:25:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Bruce Evans Cc: ken@plutotech.com, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: SONY SMO-C501-09 not recognized under CAM In-Reply-To: <199903180654.RAA13465@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: > This is because disklabel (un)helpfully converts da5 to /dev/da5c (the > 'c' partition on the first FreeBSD slice, aka da5s4c), and the slice > containing this partition doesn't have a label, and the driver thinks > that the media blocksize is 1024. Requesting an i/o size of less than > the media blocksize is a bug somewhere (probably in disklabel(8)). > Printing this message in dscheck() is a another bug. There is no > portably way to determine the blocksize; applications may need to try > various multiples of DEV_BSIZE. The same thing happens with 512 byt/sectored media. > This is because sectors/unit and/or one of the partition sizes specified > in "foo" is larger than the number of physical sectors. This may be > caused by confusion about the physical sector size. Humm... I've tried reducing the size of the 'c' partition, the only one specified in 'foo' but it doesn't work. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message