Den 2021-04-12 kl. 22:16, skrev is%netbsd.org@localhost:
On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 10:15:18PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:I have also seen winchester disks with 128 byte sectors, ESDI disks with 576 byte sectors and CD-ROM XA media uses 2352 byte sectors.I've seen a washing-machine sized disk driver, used with 128-word sectors (thus 4608 bits) on a PDP-10 installation, that was moved after decomissioning the PDP-10 to a VAX 11/750, reformatted to using 512-byte (4096 bit) sectors.
http://www.netbsd.org/ports/vax/picture.htmlAt the right there is a reformatted RP07 which was IIRC 115MW 36-bit, later 516MB on the 11/780 :-)
-- R