magneto-optical drives

[Felix Blank]

Sherman, Michael \(GE Energy\ wrote:

>> Hi all.
>> 
>> I am not sure whether it is the right thread for my kind of question. If
>> it isn't please let me know where to post it.
>> I was wondering if any of the people on this list were able to mount and
>> read (don't need writing) successfully Maxtor magneto-optical drives, or
>> any magneto-optical drive for that matter. Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.

I have a MO in operation. But "real" usage works only up to a capacity of
540 MBytes. The reason for this behaviour is, that the sector size is 512
Bytes up to this size. Larger MOs use 2048 Bytes / sector. On any attempt
to use "disklabel" the kernel complains badly about wrong sizes.
The only solution i found is to generate a ISO filesystem and mount this -
read only of course ;-)

Regards,
Felix

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Felix Blank                          Munich                            
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