From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 23 22:22:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA14413 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 22:22:36 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA14365 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 22:22:27 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA01145; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 07:22:25 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA03188; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 06:28:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA20050; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 23:35:45 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508232135.XAA20050@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Changing DEV_BSIZE To: yenbut@cs.washington.edu (Voradesh Yenbut) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 23:35:44 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199508232020.NAA26659@vetch.cs.washington.edu> from "Voradesh Yenbut" at Aug 23, 95 01:20:41 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 789 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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). I'm interested in seeing what you've got to change, since i'm currently working on integrating MO support. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)