[t13] 04-136r0.pdf SCSI to ATA Command Translations
Joerg Schilling
schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Mon Jun 7 08:25:46 PDT 2004
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* Joerg Schilling <schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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>From jgarzik at pobox.com Mon Jun 7 17:24:29 2004
>>>IMO the OS request block size _should_ be constant at 512 octets. It
>>>makes calculations easier, and representations more normal.
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>> Please do not forget CD/DVD writers.
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>> They use 2048 Bytes per block.
>That's fine, it's a multiple of 512.
Unfortunately, there is also audio CDs (2352 Bytes) and RAW CDs
with e.g. 2448 bytes or many other different sector sizes....
Jörg
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