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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!cloudbreak.rs.itd.umich.edu!cliffs.rs.itd.umich.edu!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!njl2!long From: long@njl2.materials.ox.ac.uk (Neil J Long) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Tahiti MO drive disks? Date: 3 Mar 1997 14:46:01 GMT Organization: Department of Materials, University of Oxford Lines: 20 Message-ID: <5feo79$moq@news.ox.ac.uk> Reply-To: neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: njl2.materials.ox.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36619 Hi I have an older Tahiti II (and a newer III but that is spoken for!) and have always used 512-bytes/sector disks on SGI's but wondered if anyone could comment on the 1024-bytes/sector disks with FreeBSD 2.x. Do disks have to be based on 512-byte blocks? man newfs suggests this is wise!? I just have a few 1024's which could be re-used. Thanks Neil -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Neil J Long, Department of Materials, University of Oxford * Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK * EMail: Neil.Long@materials.oxford.ac.uk * Tel: +44 (0)1865-273678 Fax: +44 (0)1865-273789