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Re: Optical disks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harvey Fishman)
Sun Sep 27 19:15:59 1998
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 19:13:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Harvey Fishman <fishman@panix.com>
To: Mark Grimsey <mgrimsey@compuserve.com>
cc: Linux SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199809271624_MC2-5ACD-4FB0@compuserve.com>
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Mark Grimsey wrote:
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> Optical disks under Linux
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> I have a Hewlett Packard C1113F Optical Drive in my PC that works under
> Windows '95 using 2.6 Gb rewritable optical disks.
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> I have read the Linux howto which specificxally talks about a different
> drive. Has anyone out there got one of these to work under Linux ?
>
> I use SuSE Linux 5.3 (Kernel 2.0.35) and an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller.
I have been using Fujitsu 3.5" MO disks since long before I started with
Linux, and have never seen a problem. Linux has always treated them the
same as any other disk - totally transparent to me. Of course you have
mount the drive and then umount it before you can remove the medium, but
that is implied. I started with an M2512a (230 MB with 512 byte sectors)
and then added an M2513a (640 MB with 2048 byte sectors). I think that
if your drive has other than 512 byte sectors, you may need to move to the
beta kernel. Other than possibly the mount and format commands, this is
a kernel issue and so should work with any distribution. What I have is
basicly SlackWare 3.0 with selective upgrades of utilities. Kernels are
recent and I use the Beta because it dual boots with NT and I need to see
NTFS file systems. Oh I have had the drive(s) jumpered to look like both
fixed disks and removables, and Linux never seemed to notice the difference.
Harvey
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