Re: BLKSSZGET change will break fdisk

From: Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 06:55:43 EST


On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:53:40AM +0200, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> (By the way, have you checked that replacing get_sectorsize
> by an empty routine, and specifying a -b option, works well?)
>
> (Do you know which disks have unusual sector size?
> So far I had only seen reports on a Fujitsu 640 MB.
> Have you seen other sectorsizes than 512, 1024, 2048
> on non-IBM disks?)

Afair there is some older type of exchangable disk with 256 bytes sectors
made by Syquest. I also remember SCSI disks that can be reformated with 4kb
sectors.

  Ralf
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