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Re: Support for 4KB sectors size disk ?



On Jan 12, 2010, at 7:14 AM, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

> 
> 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)

CS/80 disks connected via HP-IB also generally have a 256K sector size.  The 
drivers internally handle the conversion to DEV_BSIZE.  See RDBTOS() in 
arch/hp300/dev/rdreg.h

-- thorpej



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