Re: Accessing CDs or cd9660 broken

To: Jörg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>
Subject: Re: Accessing CDs or cd9660 broken
From: "Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:27:45 -0600

On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 12:14:11AM +0100, Jörg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On 1/19/26 10:27 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > (The drive is jumpered to 512 byte blocks of course.)
> 
> This part confuses me. CD-ROM sectors are 2048 Bytes long?
> 

They are.  But some DEC or DEC-adjacent drives offer 512E for DEC OS
and/or platform firmware compatibility.

References:
- Install ISO: Issues with cd9660 (at least) on Alpha and VAX?
  - From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
- Accessing CDs broken (was: Install ISO: Issues with cd9660 (at least) on Alpha and VAX?)
  - From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
- Re: Accessing CDs or cd9660 broken
  - From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
- Re: Accessing CDs or cd9660 broken
  - From: Thomas Klausner
- Re: Accessing CDs or cd9660 broken
  - From: Jan-Benedict Glaw
- Re: Accessing CDs or cd9660 broken
  - From: Jörg Sonnenberger

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