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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!prairienet.org!khadji From: khadji@prairienet.org (Aaron S. Magill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Help! MO drive problems BSDi Date: 15 Feb 1996 15:17:11 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 34 Message-ID: <4fvipn$o23@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: amagill@excalibur.pubserv.com NNTP-Posting-Host: firefly.prairienet.org I have been attempting to get an MO drive to work under BSDI 2.0, and have had intermitent success. I was able to get an MO cartridge to hold an active filesystem last week by first using disksetup to set the label and designate a partition on the cartrigdge, and newfs /dev/rsd2h created the file system properly. It was used fairly heavily over the weekend, so I know that the process worked. When I attempted to perform the setup process again on another MO cartridge, I repeatedly get a "Write Error" on the sector numbered Exactly 1 less than the last sector in the partition when I ran newfs. I performed some checks and found that the disk labels differed, the MO which worked last week has a bytes per sector of 512, while the newer ones have a bps of 1024. The total sectors on the newer MO is half the number on theMO used last week. When I tried writing the label from last weeks MO to the newer one, Disksetup didn't complain, but newfs did, this time with a Logical Block error. Am I remember the steps I performed last week incorrectly? Did I do something them that I am forgetting now? Does anyone else have experience getting MO cartridges to work? Are there any pointers or references available? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! -- Aaron S. Magill aaronm@pubserv.com Systems Administrator Publication Services, Inc. --