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To: akiyama@kme.mei.co.jp
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        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, peter@taronga.com
From: "barry (b.a.) scott" <tsbarry@nortel.ca>
Subject: Re: Drive with 1024 byte logical blocks 
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> I'm only using /sbin/disklabel, but never got a problem.
> /sbin/fdisk ..., humm, it's not worked for 1024/2048 byte/sector
> media.

	newfs has tests that the last sector on the new file
	system can be written. It writes a 512 byte sector to
	do this test.

	If this works then you cannot have reliable error
	checking in your code.

	It is an error to attempt to write to 1/2 of a sector.

				BArry