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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!worldnet.att.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tahiti MO drive disks? Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:22:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5g4lv1$1gv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5feo79$moq@news.ox.ac.uk> <331F2709.41C67EA6@sarenet.es> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36938 Borja Marcos <borjamar@sarenet.es> wrote: > > Do disks have to be based on 512-byte blocks? man newfs suggests this is > > wise!? > > Yes, you need 512 bytes/sector disks. But that won't remain this way all the time. There's rudimentary support for sector sizes != 512 bytes, but it needs quite some polishing. Since these drives usually can handle either media type, i'd suggest you start with 512 byte per sector media right now, with the option to by the (more effective) larger ones later. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)