[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.
>> 
>> 
>> Please do not forget CD/DVD writers.
>> 
>> 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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