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DateTue, 26 Oct 1999 22:09:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From(Guest section DW)
SubjectRe: Magneto Optical ATAPI (IDE) disk, Fujitsu, 2048 Bytes/sector
	From: Alan Watson <AlanWatson@flysaa.com>

... it's a 2048 bytes/sector device, and Linux doesn't like that at all.
Early in the
initialisation of the driver, it tries to send a 1 KByte request to the
device, and there's
a check in the driver that essentially checks that the request size is a
multiple of
the block size. And it's not - it's a fraction of it.

What can I do?

Maybe tell us what kernel version you are talking about?
I think 2048 bytes/sector devices work reasonably well with recent
kernels.

Once things go well at boot time, and you come to partitioning,
don't forget the -b 2048 flag to fdisk.

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