On 2011-Jul-19 10:54:38 -0700, Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > Unix operating >systems like SunOS 3 and NEXTSTEP would happily run with a DEV_BSIZE >of 1024 or larger-- they'd boot fine off of optical media using >2048-byte sectors,
Actually, Sun used customised CD-ROM drives that faked 512-byte sectors to work around their lack of support for anything else. > some of the early 1990's era SCSI >hard drives supported low-level reformatting to a different sector >size like 1024 or 2048 bytes. Did anyone actually do this? I wanted to but was warned against it by the local OS rep (this was a Motorola SVR2). -- Peter Jeremy
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