[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I just bought a Fujutsu DynaMO 640SE magneto optical disk and am > having trouble getting it to work. I have made progress by moving > from a 2.0.33 to a 2.0.34 kernel and am now able to partition it, but > it gets errors partway into mke2fs when writing inode tables. Two > different disks will fail at different inodes, and the same disk will > fail at different inodes on different runs. Before the 2.0.34 kernel > and 2048 byte sector patches, the drive was wrongly recognized as a > 39mb removable drive. Fdisk now correctly sees it with 620k 1k blocks.
I have the internal version, and I changed to kernel 2.1.131 to get it running, and there are no problems, using 2 different disks by now. (BTW I'm using the drive for backup with mirrordir, which for me seems to be the easiest way to backup my files.) The only thing I can't explain is the following error message each time when I start fdisk, which however doesn't have any consequences (anyway I didn't realize one): | Dec 28 20:45:06 wabe modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3 | Dec 28 20:45:06 wabe modprobe: can't locate module block-major-3 | Dec 28 20:45:06 wabe modprobe: can't locate module block-major-22 | Dec 28 20:45:06 wabe modprobe: can't locate module block-major-22 | Dec 28 20:45:06 wabe kernel: ll_rw_block: device 08:10: only | 2048-char blocks implemented (1024) I made the file system with `mke2fs -c -b2048 /dev/sdb1' (but so did you, I assume). I show you my relevant boot messages and fdisk output, maybe it can be interesting for you: | $ dmesg | Linux version 2.1.131 (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 SMP Mon Dec 14 1998 | | [...] | | scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1d | scsi : 1 host. | ncr53c860-0: command processing resumed | ncr53c860-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 SCSI 20.0 MB/s (50 ns, offset 8) | Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-34330 Rev: S65A | Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 | Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 | Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0b | Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 | Vendor: FUJITSU Model: M2513EL Rev: 0010 | Type: Optical Device ANSI SCSI revision: 02 | Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 | ncr53c860-0-<0,0>: tagged command queue depth set to 4 | scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total. | SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8467200 [4134 MB] [4.1 GB] | ncr53c860-0-<2,*>: FAST-10 SCSI 10.0 MB/s (100 ns, offset 8) | SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 2048 bytes. Sectors= 310352 [606 MB] [0.6 GB] | sdb: Write Protect is off | | [...] | # fdisk -l | | [...] | | Disk /dev/sdb: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 606 cylinders | Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes | | Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System | /dev/sdb1 1 1 606 620528 83 Linux native Hope it helps, greetings, jtr
