Olaf Seibert wrote:
> MO drives that act like a disk work just fine as a disk. I am using
> one right now, in fact. The 1.0 kernel (i386) reports it thusly:
> 
> ncr0 targ 4 lun 0: <FUJITSU ,M2512A          ,1408> SCSI2 direct removable
> sd2 at scsibus4sd2(ncr0:4:0): asynchronous.
> sd2(ncr0:4:0): illegal request
> sd2: could not mode sense (4); using ficticious geometry
> : 217MB, 217 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec
> 
> > The drive is reported by NetBSD as not to support a mode sense command.
> 
> but then it goes on using some geometry anyway.
> 

Did you get access to full capacity and have you tried reading the disk 
on other
machines or after upgrading to 1.1?

I seem to remember the same type of message when i tried to hook up a 
MaxiOptics
drive but didn't want to chance it since i use the media for long term 
offsite
storage.

- 
later mode,

larry glamb (lg@theeddy.com)