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Article #969Re: Was: What's a better block size for a Fuji 520M drive?
From: M Carling
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:03
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:03
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In article <1992Aug19.203816.28483@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) writes: > In article <1992Aug19.183555.3981@menudo.uh.edu> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu > (Paul S. Sears) writes: > > Actually, the NeXT also supports 2048 byte blocks/sectors as that is > what the > > CD-Rom has for a sector size... > > I don't think it will support hard drives formatted to 2048 byte blocks. The 3.0 UFS (Unix filesystem) code does support drives that use a logical block size of 2048 bytes and that is what the filesystems on the prerelease CDs used. 2.x does not have this support, so such volumes may not be used with 2.x. M Carling Director, Bay Area NeXT Group -- I believe George Bush, Anita Hill, and Pinocchio.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!news From: m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) Subject: Re: Was: What's a better block size for a Fuji 520M drive? Message-ID: <1992Aug20.160313.5887@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <1992Aug19.203816.28483@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 16:03:13 GMT Lines: 19