Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: blocksize 4096 even for floppy and CDROM? | From | "Martin K. Petersen" <> | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2022 23:00:07 -0500 |
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Randy,
>> I wonder why safecopy always says >> Reported hw blocksize: 4096 >> Reported low level blocksize: 4096 >> >> even if the medium is floppy (512) or CDROM (2048) >> >> is this a kernel issue always assuming min 4k block size?
Not sure how safecopy queries the block size. The kernel supports devices with 512, 1024, 2048, and 4096-byte logical blocks.
-- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
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