Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:58:34 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> 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: <Pine.NEB.4.51.0302011057270.1027@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <20030201084454.A1388@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk> References: <4912E0FE-3539-11D7-B26B-00306548867E@maxtor.com> <20030201084454.A1388@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>
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> 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. this is not true. older SCSI drives allow formatting with 1K sectors, CDROM's are 2K and EMULATED usually as 512b by netbsd, magneto-opticals are up to 4KB (and doesn't work in NetBSD because of that). > Indeed someone has recently gone through the netbsd code getting > it to work with (IIRC) 1k blocks for a specific disk. > > With a test sample the ffs support would be fixed in a few days, > and probably backported to recent releases within a few weeks. > > No one using windows will care :-) you could lock the ATA bus exactly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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