Sony SMO-C501 drive - help needed

[Rick Kelly]

In article <1991Mar5.134219.9578 at hyper.hyper.com> lam at hyper.UUCP (Edmund C. Lam,,) writes:
>I just had some bad experiences with this drive.  Pinnacle sells this
>exact drive with the WDFASST.  First, the SST device drivers from Columbia
>install but refuse to recognize sst partitions on the SMO from ISC2.2.

>The 'dutil' program to manipulate SST partitions fails with floating
>point overflows.  The only way to write SST partitions is to boot up
>under DOS.  In any case, the SST drivers recognize the SMO, but fail to
>recognize any logical SST partitions.  

>At this point, I gave up with the WDFASST and hooked the SMO up to the
>AH1542.  Drive seemed to work.  I tried to up a file system on it but
>it hanged the machine.  I tried 'dd'ing and this does work.  'tar' does
>complains about not being able to write odd numbered blocks ( this is the
>ah1542 driver complaining ).

>The SMO disk we used had 512 byte sectors.  I think ISC2.2 should handle
>this drive just like a regular SCSI disk off.  Close, but no bannas.





There are two _possible_ problems:



1. Speed - this drive is in the low 200k per second class.

2. Sector size - the drive is jumpered for 1k sectors.



Just a thought.



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