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Date:      Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:20:50 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        kris@hiwaay.net (Kris Kirby)
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 512 / 2048 switchable CDROM (Pioneer DRM-600)
Message-ID:  <199911162320.QAA68076@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <3831B5A2.5C66CC59@hiwaay.net> from Kris Kirby at "Nov 16, 1999 01:50:58 pm"

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Kris Kirby wrote...
> I've got a Pioneer DRM-600 (on the front panel) which IDs as a DRM-604
> over the SCSI bus. On the back panel, it says DRM-600-A. It has a switch
> for 512 or 2048. I suspect this is for compatiblity with Sun
> workstations. FreeBSD is going to need 2048, right? I ask because the
> last time I connected it (and I don't remember what the switch settings
> were) I got messages from the kernel telling me that it required Vendor
> Specific commands.

In general, yeah, you'll want to use 2K sectors with FreeBSD.  I don't
think the CD driver particularly cares about the sector size, but I'm not
sure how the cd9660 code would react to a non-2K sectors size.  (You can
always try it and find out. :)

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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