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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386bsd disk sector size Date: 14 Aug 1992 11:17:00 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <16g4ncINN7r4@disaster.Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net Folks, I checked the documentation for my second ESDI drive (yeah, WREN III) and the i fiddled with the dip switches - et voila: I got sectors of 2048 bytes each and 10 sectors per track. This seems to be slicghtly more than sectors of size 512 with 36 sectors per track. Question: Is it possible to use 2k *physical* block size for the second drive ? I think there may be problems with the bootstrap code if it were the first drive - loading sector #0 for initial bootstrap is OK, but then what about loading the following 15 sectors ? Anyway, using that as the second drive is OK, so how about it ? Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV