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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MOs (Magneto-optical drives)
Date: 20 Jul 1995 10:08:37 +0200
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Alan W Black <awb@itl.atr.co.jp> wrote:
>MOs (magneto optical drives) seem to be quite popular and readily
>available here in Japan. Does any one have any experience running
>these under FreeBSD (2.0.5 or earlier). I'm assuming that as they
>are a standard SCSI device they should just work but would be grateful
>for any first hand experience in using them.
They do work. You might run into problems due to a missing slice
table, so it's not too easy to label them (but it's possible).
You might get unit attention warnings after a media change. Ignore
them.
You won't be able to use media with a sector size of 1024 bytes. The
current sd driver does only support 512 bytes.
You should setup your drive to report ``direct access'' (w/ removalbe
medium), not ``optical''.
(And yes, i've once tested a Maxoptics drive.)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
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