From owner-freebsd-hackers  Thu Aug 24 08:18:22 1995
Return-Path: hackers-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA24385
          for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:18:22 -0700
Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251])
          by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA24379
          for <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:18:16 -0700
Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA02655; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:17:32 -0700
From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
Message-Id: <199508241517.IAA02655@ref.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: Changing DEV_BSIZE
To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:17:32 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: yenbut@cs.washington.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508232135.XAA20050@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 23, 95 11:35:44 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
Content-Type: text
Content-Length: 732       
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).
 the cd driver adapts itself to use whatever blocksize the drive is set up for..
Sun drives use 512 bytes (as do some SGI I think..) everyone else
uses 2K

julian
> 
>