>>>>> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:21:52 -0700, Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com> said:

> all of the devices that I know of with such restrictions on writing have
> a sector size of 512 bytes or larger, so this isn't an issue in practice.

Well, some older pc98 uses 256bytes/sector.
Of course, currently pc98 isn't supported by NetBSD, though...
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