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Date:      Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:03:51 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, tmb@rcru.rl.ac.uk
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2048-byte sector support for DOS filesystem.
Message-ID:  <199809090303.NAA16240@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> So to confirm my understanding, therefore you would confidently
>> expect that using the latest version of the CAM-modified CURRENT, my
>> machine will happily recognize, mount and read MSDOS filesystems on
>> 640MB magneto-optical disk with a FUJITSU 2513A (minus of course all
>> the mistakes that I'm might make in configuring this set-up).
>> Somehow I wasn't managing this before, but I'll try again if this is
>> meant to work.
>
>Such is my understanding. Somebody in the CAM team will have to
>confirm it.

CAM should have no affect on this, since the driver already supports
2048-byte sectors.  msdosfs doesn't support them.  It begins by
attempting to read a 512-byte boot sector...

Bruce

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