On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:47:18AM -0700, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> >
> > I have a Yamaha CRW2100SZ CD-ROM/R/RW drive installed in a DEC Alpha
> > running NetBSD-1.5.2.  My SCSI board is a Symbios 53c875.  The drive
> > has a jumper for "blocksize on/blocksize off".  When "on", the
> > blocksize is 512.
> >
> > I have tested the drive with the jumper off, and it seems to work just
> > fine.  Is there any reason for me to set the jumper on?  Stupid
> > question, but "which is better"?
>
> the 512-byte blocksize is for booting. Most unix machines can boot only
> from media with 512-byte blocks.

Ah, that makes sense.  I would like to be able to boot from this drive.  Is
NetBSD/Alpha in that category?

thanks,
-bp
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