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Date:      Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:33:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
Subject:   Re: 2048-byte sector support for DOS filesystem.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980910183339.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <199809100720.JAA03368@semyam.dinoco.de>

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Stefan Eggers, On 10-Sep-98 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?

Unless mistaken, CD-ROMs have some bizzare sector sizes, sometimes.




Simon


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