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On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:13:26PM -0700, Trevin Beattie wrote:
> I have attempted to make some modifications to the (1.5.2) kernel in an
> effort to find a way to get disk I/O to work with optical media whose
> sector size is 2048 bytes rather than the 512-byte sectors used in magnetic
> media.  The initial attempt has failed, and I would like to start a
> discussion into what will be the best way to support devices with varying
> block sizes.

Best start with a scan of the mailing list archives. There have been long
discussions of this, and initial efforts should be in some UBC related
experimental branch, if I recall right.

Of course, this is post-1.5 - branch.

Regards,
	-is

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