Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I need to read some Magneto Optical disks using my old Maxtor MO drive. I was wondering if NetBSD supported those. The model of my drive is MAXTOR RXT-800S
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Michael
> 


It really depends.  What operating system were they created under?

If DOS, there are two ways to format a MO disk under DOS.  The first was 
treating it as a big floppy, and I'm pretty sure that's not supported 
under NetBSD (or anything else besides DOS).

The second method is to treat the disk like a Hard Drive with a proper 
MS-DOS partition table &c.  These would be mounted like a USB thumb 
drive.  Probibly the "e" slice.

Another thing to consider would be the sector size (I may have this term 
wrong).  Looking at the age of this thing, it's probibly 512k so you 
should have no problems in that regard.  NetBSD cannot mount (last time 
I checked, 1.4 time-frame) 2048k sector size MO media.

HTH

Clark

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