19 Jan
2007
19 Jan
'07
5:21 p.m.
Brad Parker wrote:
That does surprise me. I can well believe that certain filesystems won't work
except at a fixed (typically 512) byte block size, but with my other post in
mind about CDROM drives I would have expected the low-level access to stand a
reasonable chance of working.
I wonder what the problem is - I hope there's not some hack in there which
runs along the lines of "if it's a non-removeable mass storage device then we
expect it to use 512 bytes per block only".
When I've
done this, though, I've written my own disc dumping code using SCSI
command blocks to the low-level interface.
yes, I found linux to be incapable of dealing with scsi disks formatted
to non-512 byte multiple blocks...