On Friday 22 July 2005 20:18, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Johann wrote: > >Hi everybody, > > > >i'm trying to access UDO/WORM mediums (which have a sector size of > >8192) via a Plasmon UDO drive, but all I get is "unsupported sector > >size 8192" when I try to access it via /dev/sdX. drivers/scsi/sd.c > >suggests that the maximum sector size currently supported by Linux is > >4096. > > > >How difficult will it get to support 8192? Maybe we can pay somebody > >for doing it? (Kernel 2.4.21, RHEL 3.1). > > We (at Plasmon) investigated adding support in the kernel, but gave up > quickly as it looked like it would need a huge amount of work in > multiple areas. Instead, we've started shipping a userland filesystem > driver for UDO based on FUSE. If you'd be interested in that, let me > know... Wouldn't it be possible to translate the sector size 2:1? For me, it doesn't seem that hard to do. But then again, I usually program other things than the kernel :) -- Regards, Christian Iversen - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
