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> From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
> To: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
> Cc: port-pmax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Pre-release snapshot of NetBSD-1.3.3 available
> Date: Thursday, November 19, 1998 12:37 AM
> 
> >  + Support for non-DEC (block size != 512 byte) CDROM drives.
> 
> And hard drives != 512 byte sectors?  I have an old maxtor that seems to
> be fixed at 1k sectors, which NetBSD doesn't seem to be able to deal with
> at all.  It'll see the drive when the machine boots, but refuses to
> partition or format.

Or MO-Drives ? i have one with 2048 byte sectors ....

cheers,
emanuel