Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 14:17:52 +0100 From: phk@freebsd.org To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> Cc: Steve Byan <stephen_byan@maxtor.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org Subject: Re: DEV_B_SIZE Message-ID: <18171.1044105472@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Feb 2003 08:44:54 GMT." <20030201084454.A1388@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>
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In message <20030201084454.A1388@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>, David Laight writes: >The only reason I can see for supporting 512byte reads is to allow >them to to be used as system disks without requiring a BIOS update. > >I suspect that the only reason that the BSD systems don't support >sector sizes other than 512 is a lack of test media. What gave you the impression that we don't support anything but 512 bytes ? I'm running a 2k sectorsize device right now. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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