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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Optical drives -- how to use
Date: 6 Oct 1996 15:41:17 GMT
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kot@zipnet.net (Mikhail Teterin) wrote:

> Search thru mailing archives was useless :( Can someone, who
> currently uses the od-s tell how to create filesystem on such
> a drive. Please? The drive is already recognizeable, etc. I
> even can 
> 	disklabel -Brw od0 auto
> it (sometimes). Running

So you've already mastered the first hurdle.

> 	newfs /dev/rod0s1a
> lead to lots of SCSI errors, SCSI-bus reset :( Bad hardware?

SCSI termination problem?  What drive?  What controller?  What
exact messages?

It's perhaps best to use the freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org forum for this
type of questions.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)