From: Jim Seymour (jseymour@LinxNet.com)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 22:17:36 EDT
The question was (summarized):
I'm trying to get a Fujitsu model MCM3130SS-S, 1.3GB
magneto-optical (M-O), drive working under Sun Sparc Solaris 7.
Hardware is a Sun AXi motherboard.
In brief: probe-scsi-all "saw" the device, but Solaris wouldn't
otherwise do anything with it.
The responses were (edited/summarized):
It should show up in /dev/dsk.
There are several jumper settings for how the 5.25" versions of
these drives present themselves to Solaris. One is that the
drives appear to be a fixed disk, another as a removable device.
Make sure /etc/vold.conf is correctly configured.
Try SCSI I.D. 6. (Where the CD-ROM normally is.)
you may try to create the devices manually if they appear below
/devices also try devfsadm -v as these are removable devices,
vold should be able to manage them.
Results:
There *is* a switch setting that allows the device to be set to
"type 0 direct access device." Unfortunately, at least as of
Solaris 7, Sun remains/remained hooked on its 512-byte block size
thing and the drive has a fixed 2048 block size. So the "sd"
driver simply won't "deal" with it that way. As a "type 7
optical memory device," Solaris simply will not recognize the
device's existence except in probe-scsi-all. Nothing appears
even in /devices. Devfsadm was no help.
Sadly, there appears to be no way to make this device work under
Solaris 7. Period.
Note that Fujitsu's 2.3GB M-O drive is also a fixed 2048 block
size. So the same incompatibility would obtain.
Somebody mentioned in comp.unix.solaris that they work fine under
Solaris 9. Solaris 8 is an unknown.
Thanks to Mark Hargrave, Sean Berry, Paul Gress and Bertrand Hutin for
their responses. Thanks to sunmanagers.org for the mailing list.
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