Re: blocksize 4096 even for floppy and CDROM?

[Martin K. Petersen]

Randy,

>> I wonder why safecopy always says
>> Reported hw blocksize: 4096
>> Reported low level blocksize: 4096
>> 
>> even if the medium is floppy (512) or CDROM (2048)
>> 
>> is this a kernel issue always assuming min 4k block size?

Not sure how safecopy queries the block size. The kernel supports
devices with 512, 1024, 2048, and 4096-byte logical blocks.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering