Re: Support for 4KB sectors size disk ?

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> > To support >512bytes/sector devices, we may have two choice: [...]
> 
> What about <512?  They exist; I have a floppy drive which I've been
> carefully hoarding because it has 256-octet blocks, the only device
> with <512-octet blocks I've ever seen (and it's SCSI, the only SCSI
> floppy drive I've ever seen, but that's irrelevant to this thread).
> 
> Do we (FWVO "we") want to bother with such devices?

My HP9000/382 has 256bytes/sector SCSI floppy (with FDD-SCSI convertor),
but I don't think it's worth to bother to support it.
(though it might be trivial once we abandon traditional DEV_BSIZE
 constant from raw I/O access and all scsipi drivers)
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Izumi Tsutsui