Johann wrote: >Hi everybody, > >i'm trying to access UDO/WORM mediums (which have a sector size of >8192) via a Plasmon UDO drive, but all I get is "unsupported sector >size 8192" when I try to access it via /dev/sdX. drivers/scsi/sd.c >suggests that the maximum sector size currently supported by Linux is >4096. > >How difficult will it get to support 8192? Maybe we can pay somebody >for doing it? (Kernel 2.4.21, RHEL 3.1).
We (at Plasmon) investigated adding support in the kernel, but gave up quickly as it looked like it would need a huge amount of work in multiple areas. Instead, we've started shipping a userland filesystem driver for UDO based on FUSE. If you'd be interested in that, let me know... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
