Subject: Re: Question re some improvements in NetBSD 1.6
To: NetBSD/users <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 06/28/2002 01:38:49
Thomas Mueller skrev:

>Does anybody know if NetBSD 1.6 will feature improved support for the
>Soundblaster PCI128 including what I have, which is Ensoniq CT5880 on the
>Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard?  Other feature of interest, which I asked about
>though not specifically in connection with NetBSD 1.6, is support for hard
>disks having sector size != 512 bytes, such as the Fujitsu DynaMO, whose
>sector size is 2048 bytes, and supported by newer versions of Linux.

"Iggy Drougge" <optimus@canit.se> responded:

> MOs are usually available in both plain 2048 and 512 byte block sizes. Is the
> Fujitsu an exception?

From what they tell me, the newer MOs have sector size = 2048 bytes.  Older MOs
had sector size = 512 bytes.  I think disk access is much faster with the
larger sector size.  Does anybody make MO drives and disks besides Fujitsu?