Re: GVP Series II SCSI

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

Pieter Ennes wrote:

> I'm trying to get a Sony SMO-C501 magneto optical drive to work
> through a GVP Series II SCSI adapter. Now is there any reason not to
> trust any of the standard utilities cfdisk, scsiinfo, mke2fs,
> badblocks with this setup on APUS?
> It looks fine on boot, i can actually mount it with the correct size,
> badblocks -w does execute wonderfully, but problems start with things
> like making nested directories on the ext2 filesystem (files are ok),
> or doing a scsi inquiry like
> scsiinfo -g /dev/sda (see dmesg below).
> Can anyone tell me where to start looking with this? I don't have any
> other scsi host around and i know this drive is a problem by itself,
> but to me this might seem to be having to do with the GVP driver or
> something...
> Or could it be the geometry is wrong (it says 10 heads in cfdisk,
> which i know should be 1). Also most of the disks are 1024
> bytes/sector in stead of 512. Is that still a problem with the current
> kernel?

That could indeed be a problem as of recent 2.4 kernels, try mounting via a
loop device.


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