How to partition magneto-optical disks with sectors of 2048 bytes?

2011-03-05 Thread Jens A. Griepentrog
Dear OpenBSD community, I have got some SCSI magneto-optical drive together with a new 2.3GB removable MO disk. My system has configured it as follows: OpenBSD 4.8 (GENERIC.MP) #335: Mon Aug 16 09:09:20 MDT 2010 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP ... sd0 at scs

How to partition magneto-optical disks with sectors of 2048 bytes?

2011-03-05 Thread Jens A. Griepentrog
Dear OpenBSD community, I have got some SCSI magneto-optical drive together with a new 2.3GB removable MO disk. My system has configured it as follows: OpenBSD 4.8 (GENERIC.MP) #335: Mon Aug 16 09:09:20 MDT 2010 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP ... sd0 at scs

Re: How to partition magneto-optical disks with sectors of 2048 bytes?

2011-03-05 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: > What went wrong? The procedure works for usual hard disks and memory > sticks with sectors of 512 bytes. I would be grateful for any hint. > (As a final aim I would like to have some bootable magneto-optical > disk with root partition a:

Re: How to partition magneto-optical disks with sectors of 2048 bytes?

2011-03-06 Thread Jens A. Griepentrog
On 03/06/11 02:25, Matthew Dempsky wrote: On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: What went wrong? The procedure works for usual hard disks and memory sticks with sectors of 512 bytes. I would be grateful for any hint. (As a final aim I would like to have some bootable magne

Re: How to partition magneto-optical disks with sectors of 2048 bytes?

2011-03-06 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 04:14:33PM +0100, Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: > On 03/06/11 02:25, Matthew Dempsky wrote: > > [...] Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: > >>What went wrong? The procedure works for usual hard disks and memory > >>sticks with sectors of 512 bytes. I would be grateful for any hint. >

Re: How to partition magneto-optical disks with sectors of 2048 bytes?

2011-03-07 Thread Jens A. Griepentrog
On 03/06/2011 05:10 PM, Joachim Schipper wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 04:14:33PM +0100, Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: >> On 03/06/11 02:25, Matthew Dempsky wrote: >>> [...] Jens A. Griepentrog wrote: What went wrong? The procedure works for usual hard disks and memory sticks with sector