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Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: multiple of sector size I/O restriction
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Jean-Yves Lefort <jylefort@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> I've found some linux code which reads from a raw cd device in
> non-multiples of the sector size; I imagine that this code works on
> linux. This leads me to think that it is possible to overcome the
> hardware limitation by software means. Am I right?

Linux still has block devices; FreeBSD doesn't.

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