>Hi again,
>
>thanks to Manuel and Eduardo, I've managet to get a bit further in this
>text adventure. :-) Now I have a kernel booting that recognizes the DVD
>RAM:
>
>sd1 at scsibus targ 4 lun 0: <MATSHITA, PD-2 LF-D100, A113> SCSI2 5/cdrom
>removable
>sd1: could not mode sense (4/5); using fictious geometry
>sd1: 595MB, 595 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1218960 sectors

Sounds like the total size is that close to that of a CD, not a DVD.
Perhaps you inserted a CD accidentally?

As far as I know the sector size with DVD-RAM is always 2048.  If there are
any concrete exceptions please let me know...


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