Subject: Re: The demise of DEV_BSIZE
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: John Kohl <jtk@kolvir.arlington.ma.us>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/07/1999 07:47:52
>>>>> "IS" == Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de> writes:

IS> - I was thinking, at that time, of audio and video CDs with 2352 byte blocks.
IS>   I was not aware that those are not really addressable, so this doesn't count
IS>   (but see at the end).

I'm don't completely buy Ross Harvey's description of non-addressibility
of audio blocks.  My experience with my old SCSI Toshiba 3401-XA drive
is that it was absolutely reliable in getting to the same audio frames
when commanded.

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