Subject: Disks with 128 or 256 bytes per sector
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/29/2001 04:51:41
Hi.

I am currently in the beginning of writing a device driver for the 
DEC RX01 / RX02 floppy disk system. These drives use 128 or 256 bytes
per sctor. How does NetBSD deal with this? Is there a system to use non
512 byte per sector disks, or should my driver do a transparent sector
mapping to 512 byte sectors. (Like the firmware of SCSI CDROM drives in 
512 byte per sector mode.) A first look at disk(9) did not gave me
a hint. 



tschüß,
         Jochen

Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/