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From: salb@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Bernd Salbrechter)
Subject: Re: Fujitsu Magneto-Optical disklabel parameters
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Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 10:41:10 GMT
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Neil Dunbar (neil@krypton.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: Hi all,
:
: Has anyone got a disklabel for a Fujistu M2511A Magneto Optical Drive?
: I've tried to guess the parameters (via fdisk and others), but BSD's
: disklabel still seems a bit beyond me in this case.
You have to figure out the size of the disk you use.
I do the following for this:
1. Disklabe it with somthing more than I expect.
2. run dd -if=<rwa block device of the MO> -skip=<near to the real end>
-block_size=512 -of=/dev/null
# dd will say how many records are transfered and you can calculate
# the right size
3. Disklabe it with the right size.
4. run newfs or somthing.
Works fine.
NB. I use an IBM Drive, but that shouldn't matter. I don't have the exact
description handy, so this is what I remeber about the hack.
:
: It's just a standard SCSI device, and Linux and UnixWare (blech!) accept
: the beastie just fine, so I can't believe my shiny new FreeBSD 2.0 doesn't
: like it.
:
: Cheers,
:
: Neil
:
: --
: +-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
: | Neil Dunbar | Internet: neil@krypton.demon.co.uk |
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--salb