As J.S. Connell puts it:
>
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Ricky Beam wrote:
> > Every CDROM drive placed in a PC supports 512 byte sectoring (usually
right
> > out of the factory.) The rarer find is a 2048 byte sectored drive
common
> > to old Sun hardware -- infact, most Sun's cannot boot from a CDROM
that
> > doesn't power up in 2k mode. (All of my plextor drives have a jumper
for
> > setting the block size.)
> Uh, normally I wouldn't comment, but I believe you have this exactly
> backwards. Last I checked you can't boot a Sun from a drive that's
_not_
> set to 512-byte sector mode, and I've never seen a non-SCSI CD-ROM drive
> that had the option.
>
> CD-ROM "normal data" sectors are 2048 bytes, not 512.
I thought so, too.
And both the generic CD-ROM driver drivers/block/cdrom.c and the SCSI
CD-ROM drivers/scsi/sr.c default to 2kB blocks.
Bernd
-- - Bernd Kischnickemail kisch@mindless.com tel +49-(0)511-18375
Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Aug 15 2000 - 21:00:21 EST