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Re: CD-ROM 512b block size



On Sat, Mar 05, 2022 at 07:30:56PM +0300, Dima Veselov wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> Some SCSI CD-ROMs have a switch setting from 2048-byte block to
> 512 for older systems like Irix. Will NetBSD work with 512-byte
> CD-ROM?

I'm not sure about a (manual) switch or jumper, but I have used various
scsi CD drives in Sun gear that used 512 byte blocks by default but could
be told to switch to 2048 (or simmilar) when using them to grab audio CDs.

Martin


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