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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!vanepp From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Subject: Re: FreeBSD1.1 deal with 1024? Message-ID: <vanepp.759206195@sfu.ca> Sender: news@sfu.ca (seymour news) Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <2hmsq2$5rb@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <2hp4cp$8pn@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 02:36:35 GMT Lines: 38 nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <2hmsq2$5rb@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, >Lars Hentschke <nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: >> >>Hi.... >> >>Will FreeBSD1.1 work with 1024 blocks per cylinders on Disk? >>sd0 will be 512 >>sd1, sd2, sd3 will be 1024 >> >I don't understand your question? If you mean does FreeBSD support >filesystems with 1024 byte blocks, it does now. If you mean does >FreeBSD support disk which contains more than 1024 cylinders it does >now, but other operating sytems don't so we have to work around them. >What exactly are you asking? >Nate >-- >nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, >nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's >work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to >home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me At a guess, I believe he is asking if FreeBSD will support disks low level formated to 1024 bytes per sector rather than 512 and I believe the answer is likely no, that you would have to use one of the utilities (I usually find a Mac, about the only useful purpose I have ever found for a Mac) to do it. The NeXT for instance uses 1024 bytes per sector, and moving from there to a Sun is where I have run into this. Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada