Subject: Re: Supporting sector size != DEV_BSIZE
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/11/2001 11:55:41
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> Not every scsi disk does support this at all nowadays - remember, you need
> a couple levels of forward error correction and n-out-of-m-bit encodings to
> see any meaningful data with modern bit densities, so the user-visible block
> size is probably fixed.
>
> But some media are != 512 - some MO use 1024 bytes, some 2048 bytes.
> CD in data mode also uses 2048 bytes.
>
how is it handled with CD's on non-current netbsd?