Re: 520 Bytes sector size

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>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> Linux does not support 520-byte sectors unless the drive is formatted
>> with DIF and hanging off a DIF-capable HBA.

Alan> Is that true even with sg - I wouldn't have thought sg minded, it
Alan> doesn't seem to mind about strange sized transfers for CD-ROM ?

Did not work last I mucked with it a while back.  If I recall correctly
there were a few places where we assumed multiples of 512.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering
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