From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 10 10:09:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06804 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:09:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06778 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:09:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id LAA00933; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:03:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:03:14 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199809101703.LAA00933@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Bruce Evans cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2048-byte sector support for DOS filesystem. Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: <199809101644.CAA03142@godzilla.zeta.org.au> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971204 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199809101644.CAA03142@godzilla.zeta.org.au> you wrote: >>> 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 We've incorporated all of your recent slice changes, so unless your thinking of some other code path that needs support, CAM shouldn't regress in this area. As far as other Bruce filter fixups, since the filters aren't documented anywhere, CAM may have regressed. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message