Re: 4kb sector disks on NetBSD?

["Helge Mühlmeier" <H_Muehlmeier%gmx.de@localhost>]

Hi,

maybe disktab(5) will be a friend ?!

Greetings,
Helge

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:27:53 -0800
> Von: John Refling <netbsdrat%gmail.com@localhost>
> An: netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost
> Betreff: 4kb sector disks on NetBSD?

> I have a iomega ego rphd-ug3 500 gb external usb 3 disk.
> 
> It apparently uses the new 4k byte sector sizes.  It seems to work
> with XP, but not NetBSD.
> 
> I can write a disklabel to it, but newfs -S4096 fails with:
> 
> rdfs: read error for sector 1: Invalid argument
> 
> the partition table is:
> 
> # /dev/rsd0d:
> type: SCSI
> disk: Ext Hard Disk
> label: fictitious
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 4096
> sectors/track: 32
> tracks/cylinder: 64
> sectors/cylinder: 2048
> cylinders: 59616
> total sectors: 122094086
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0         # microseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0        # microseconds
> drivedata: 0
> 
> 5 partitions:
> #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>  d: 122094086         0     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.      0 - 
> 59616*)
> 
> There seems no documentation from the manufacturer for compatibility mode,
> can't open the case to find jumpers.
> 
> Strange it works on XP.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
> John Refling

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