Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 23:35:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: yenbut@cs.washington.edu (Voradesh Yenbut) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Changing DEV_BSIZE Message-ID: <199508232135.XAA20050@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199508232020.NAA26659@vetch.cs.washington.edu> from "Voradesh Yenbut" at Aug 23, 95 01:20:41 pm
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As Voradesh Yenbut wrote: > > Can the block size different from 512 be used some day? I have been > using 512 and 1024-block disk drives for the past 6 months. I had to > hack more than half a dozen of files before FreeBSD can run. It would > be good if I don't have to do it. My 1024 disk drive is a Maxoptic > magnito-optical drive with 1024-block media. MOD's are certaily the only candidates that sometimes _require_ a different hardware block size (except you can also format floppies with up to 1024 or 2048 byte block size). I'm interested in seeing what you've got to change, since i'm currently working on integrating MO support. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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