DVD-RAM on FC3
Peter Arremann
loony at loonybin.org
Tue Mar 8 00:00:29 UTC 2005
On Monday 07 March 2005 18:53, Rick Stevens wrote:
> CD-ROMs also use a 2048-byte sector size. AFAIK, only disks actually
> use 512-byte sector sizes. Well, way back when, Sun used a 512-byte
> sector size on CDs, too (Sun SPARC SLC, etc.). I never did figure out
> why. Fortunately, I had some old NEC Multispin CD drives that could be
> jumpered either way, so I put on a switch.
512 was needed for booting only - otherwise a regular CD drive would work as
well.. That way they didn't have to mock around with the OBP and extending
the firmware of a cdrom is quite easy...
Peter.
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