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Re: hardware block size on scsi cdrom



Strange, I thought the default block size for an ISO9660 filesystem was 2048. I'm not
sure what this block size refers too. I'm not sure what exactly would happen if you
changed it.

Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:

> I have a scsi cdrom (Plextor) and a scsi cdwriter (Yamaha). They both
> have a jumper to set the block size to 1024 bytes or to 512 bytes. The
> manuals say that for Unix 512 is the good value.
> Do you have any suggestions? What does this value mean, after all?
>
> Pf
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