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From: dillon@flea.best.net (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: does freebsd support scsi cdrom with 1024 bytes block transfers?
Date: 31 Dec 1996 11:29:32 -0800
Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
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:In article <32C8C93D.72A8@direct.ca>,
:Peter Schiller <schiller@direct.ca> wrote:
:>I hope Iam wording this question correctly. I have a
:>pioneer scsi cdrom with a jumper that allows me to
:>switch between 512bytes and 1024 bytes block transfers.
:>Will FreeBSD work in 1024 bytes mode?
:>
:>Thanks in advance
:>SC.
This sounds like some weird pioneer thing. The block size is
mostly meaningless as far as SCSI performance goes. I
wouldn't touch it.
-Matt