> 
> 2) what about other file systems that have even stricter requirements
> (like FAT file systems depend on the C/H/S settings of the underlying
> device; change them and the fs strictly-speaking needs to be
> re-formatted).

Not last time I looked.....
IIRC the FAT filesystem supports sector sizes other than 512
(but the netbsd code probably doesn't)

For one system we thought about putting 2 compact flash cards
'side by side' on the 32bit data bus.  This would give 1024
byte sectors that could be accessed with 32bit data cycles.
This would half the data transfer time....

	David

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