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- From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: 386bsd disk sector size
- Date: 14 Aug 1992 11:17:00 GMT
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- Folks,
- I checked the documentation for my second ESDI drive (yeah, WREN III)
- and the i fiddled with the dip switches - et voila: I got sectors of 2048
- bytes each and 10 sectors per track. This seems to be slicghtly more than
- sectors of size 512 with 36 sectors per track.
-
- Question: Is it possible to use 2k *physical* block size for the second drive ?
- I think there may be problems with the bootstrap code if it were the first
- drive - loading sector #0 for initial bootstrap is OK, but then what about
- loading the following 15 sectors ?
-
- Anyway, using that as the second drive is OK, so how about it ?
-
- Bernard
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