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- 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
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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
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