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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!nuggets From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD1.1 deal with 1024? Date: 25 Jan 1994 10:45:24 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 44 Message-ID: <2i2t84$oei@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <2hmsq2$5rb@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <2hp4cp$8pn@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <vanepp.759206195@sfu.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: moth.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Peter Van Epp (vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca) wrote: : nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: : >In article <2hmsq2$5rb@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, : >Lars Hentschke <nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: : >> : >>Hi.... : >> : >>Will FreeBSD1.1 work with 1024 blocks per cylinders on Disk? : >>sd0 will be 512 : >>sd1, sd2, sd3 will be 1024 : >> : >I don't understand your question? If you mean does FreeBSD support : >filesystems with 1024 byte blocks, it does now. If you mean does : >FreeBSD support disk which contains more than 1024 cylinders it does : >now, but other operating sytems don't so we have to work around them. : >What exactly are you asking? : >Nate : >-- : >nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, : >nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's : >work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to : >home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me : At a guess, I believe he is asking if FreeBSD will support disks low level : formated to 1024 bytes per sector rather than 512 and I believe the answer : is likely no, that you would have to use one of the utilities (I usually : find a Mac, about the only useful purpose I have ever found for a Mac) to : do it. The NeXT for instance uses 1024 bytes per sector, and moving from there : to a Sun is where I have run into this. : Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support : Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada ouch, that hurts. sorry-i mean 1024 bytes per sector, the old problem, my hand is not compatable with my H#A_ED. lars.