Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Jun 1998 23:30:05 -0400 (EDT) | From | Harvey Fishman <> | Subject | Re: MO problems... |
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On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Rainer Wittmann wrote:
> Harvey Fishman wrote: > > > > Is it me, is it Linux, or is it Fujitsu? Does Linux support the Fujitsu > > M2513a MO drive with 640 MB media? It seems fine with 230 MB media, but > > the larger disks use 2048 byte sectors. The drive works fine with either > > under NT, but under Linux (2.1.102 or so) it told me that the drive was > > only about 150 some odd MB in size. I know there used to be 540 MB media > > (these have been discontinued by Fujitsu, though Maxell and some others may > > still make them) with 512 byte sectors, but I use the 640 MB disks. Has > > anyone made this work? If so, how? Thanks. > > I have the same drive. It works well with 640 MB disks, if I put an ext2 > file system on it ( format with mke2fs -b 2048 ). On the hand I cannot > mount 640 MB disks with a DOS or an NTFS file system, which I would > really appreciate.
THANKS!!! That tells me a lot!!! I only tried with a disk with an NTFS file system on it, and came a cropper. Never tried with an ext2 fs. But do you know what will happen if I try writing to the disk with tar without any file system on there? That is REALLY what I need to do.
Harvey
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