Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:14:52 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smxrgrav) Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS on MO disks Message-ID: <199710141814.TAA01460@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <xzpu3ektx3q.fsf@skirfir.ifi.uio.no> from "Dag-Erling Coidan Smxrgrav" at Oct 14, 97 01:14:49 pm
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As Dag-Erling Coidan Smxrgrav wrote... > I have an Olympus MO330S magneto-optical drive connected to my 2.2.1R > system. When I mount it with a FAT-formatted disk in the drive, it > works just fine (at least I've never experienced any data errors) but > I get a bunch of "Illegal logical block address" or somesuch error > messages on the console. (Sorry if the error messages are not exact; > the box with the MO is two miles from here and I didn't remember to > write them down) Sounds like the driver has gotten bad geometry data or something like that from the drive. > So I thought I'd try to format a disk with UFS and see if it worked > better (plus the added benefit of a more efficient FS with proper > access control and long file names). /stand/sysinstall slices it up > nicely, but when I try to write changes from the labler, newfs dies > with an "invalid argument" error. Now disklabel -r /dev/od0 won't work > (though that isn't a big problem since I can copy an MBR back from > another disk) > > Does anyone have experience newfs'ing MO disks? Yep. I have a Digital RWZ01 (a Sony 650Mb 5.25" in disguise) and that worked just fine with UFS some time back. But the RWZ reports itself as type 0 (?) so just like a normal random access device. And therefore uses the sd driver. Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda
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