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Date:      Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:03:14 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2048-byte sector support for DOS filesystem.
Message-ID:  <199809101703.LAA00933@narnia.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809101644.CAA03142@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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In article <199809101644.CAA03142@godzilla.zeta.org.au> you wrote:
>>> but since the od driver is going away on C-day and CAM's da driver
>>> supports (n * 512)-byte blocks for arbitrary n, I don't see much point
>>
>>Just out of curiosity not having any hardware needing this: Is n
>>really an arbitrary integer greater zero or is it restricted to the
>>powers of two?
> 
> It's also restricted to integers less than about 2^30 / 512 :-).
> 
> Most SCSI drivers already support this.  Hopefully CAM won't regress.
> 
> Bruce

We've incorporated all of your recent slice changes, so unless your
thinking of some other code path that needs support, CAM shouldn't
regress in this area.  As far as other Bruce filter fixups, since
the filters aren't documented anywhere, CAM may have regressed.

--
Justin

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