[ On Wed, June 12, 1996 at 08:38:59 (-0600), Michael L. Hitch wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: problems with 1024 byte/sector disks?
>
>   NetBSD will not work with 1024 byte sectors (or any size other
> than 512 bytes).  The "block size" is used inconsistently in various
> places in the kernel.  The page and swap handling all assume 512
> byte blocks, [[....]]

That sucks.  I guess my old SMDs are out for the sun3, eh?

> I've
> been keeping patches to scsi/sd.c and scsi/cd.c that should allow
> the use of non-512 byte blocks for file access, but I never did try
> to do anything about paging/swapping.

Wait a minute.  Is this problem only with SCSI disks?

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