Subject: Re: reformatting IDE drive?
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 04/04/2001 21:22:33
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 03:55:39PM -0700, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 08:41:29PM +0200, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
>
> > is it possible to reformat IDE drive with other sector size (1024
> > preferably)?
> >
> > it is possible with SCSI giving little space and performance gain.
>
> heh... Back in 1.4 days, NetBSD couldn't handle 1024 byte sectors on
> SCSI disks. I've got an old maxtor (pulled from a NeXT) that worked
> fine under linux, but NetBSD refused to work with.
>
> guess I should try again under 1.5?
No, it won't work in 1.5 either.
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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