> > To support >512bytes/sector devices, we may have two choice: [...] > > What about <512? They exist; I have a floppy drive which I've been > carefully hoarding because it has 256-octet blocks, the only device > with <512-octet blocks I've ever seen (and it's SCSI, the only SCSI > floppy drive I've ever seen, but that's irrelevant to this thread). > > Do we (FWVO "we") want to bother with such devices?
My HP9000/382 has 256bytes/sector SCSI floppy (with FDD-SCSI convertor), but I don't think it's worth to bother to support it. (though it might be trivial once we abandon traditional DEV_BSIZE constant from raw I/O access and all scsipi drivers) --- Izumi Tsutsui
