From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 10 09:45:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA02338 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:45:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.15.68.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02318 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:45:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA03142; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 02:44:48 +1000 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 02:44:48 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199809101644.CAA03142@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: Re: 2048-byte sector support for DOS filesystem. Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> but since the od driver is going away on C-day and CAM's da driver >> supports (n * 512)-byte blocks for arbitrary n, I don't see much point > >Just out of curiosity not having any hardware needing this: Is n >really an arbitrary integer greater zero or is it restricted to the >powers of two? It's also restricted to integers less than about 2^30 / 512 :-). Most SCSI drivers already support this. Hopefully CAM won't regress. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message