[iyonix-support] Re: Bad block size, must be 256/512/1024

  • From: dave higton <davehigton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 12:34:26 +0100

Quoting John Ballance <jwb@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> 
> 
> Steffen Huber wrote:
> >> How many of you have seen this, and on how many solid state drives
> >> and readers?
> > 
> > Last time I saw it was quite a long time ago when connecting a
> > 640(?) MB MO-drive.
> > 
> > There are very few random access devices around today that are
> > based on 2048 bytes/sector "block" sizes - but a notable exception is
> > CD-like media. Think of DVD-RAM and BD-RE.
> > 
> > So a generic filecore solution would be really appreciated. I
> > never had a look at the filecore sources to judge the difficulty,
> > but I presume it is similarly frightening asm stuff that I have
> > seen elsewhere...
> 
> yes ..

So does this mean that the "Bad block size, must be 256/512/1024"
message comes from somewhere in FileCore, rather than the SCSI and
USB layers?

Dave


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