Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:17:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: yenbut@cs.washington.edu Subject: Re: Changing DEV_BSIZE Message-ID: <199508241517.IAA02655@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199508232135.XAA20050@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 23, 95 11:35:44 pm
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> > As Voradesh Yenbut wrote: > > > > Can the block size different from 512 be used some day? I have been > > using 512 and 1024-block disk drives for the past 6 months. I had to > > hack more than half a dozen of files before FreeBSD can run. It would > > be good if I don't have to do it. My 1024 disk drive is a Maxoptic > > magnito-optical drive with 1024-block media. > > MOD's are certaily the only candidates that sometimes _require_ a > different hardware block size (except you can also format floppies > with up to 1024 or 2048 byte block size). the cd driver adapts itself to use whatever blocksize the drive is set up for.. Sun drives use 512 bytes (as do some SGI I think..) everyone else uses 2K julian > >
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