Re: Support for 4KB sectors size disk ?

[David Holland <dholland-current%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:07:42PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
 > No, they don't present 512 byte sectors to the host OS.  They present
 > 512-byte sectors to *applcation code* running on the host -- this is
 > because the host OS uses the additional space itself.  The
 > sectors presented over the SCSI interface to the host are 524 bytes
 > or, in some older designs, 528 bytes.  Yank a disk out of a storage
 > array on one of these machines and see for yourself!

...and this is something we ought to be able to support going forward,
if we can swing it.

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David A. Holland
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