Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: Video CD on Linux kernel 2.2 | Date | 25 Feb 1999 05:53:45 +0100 |
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Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> writes: > > Ah, ok. So how hard would it be to write 2336 byte versions of the > generic_file_* functions, or even *cough* generic ones for any sector size > ;) > You'd end up copying data around like crazy, which is why having sectors which are even fractions of the page size is such a good idea, which is why sane people are doing things that way. Apparently the ISO people had different ideas. :-/
I could use something like that myself -- there's an old SCSI tape drive (40 MB only, though -- the old Apple/3M thing, it shows on the bus as a device of type 0x10 or so...) lying around in my computer room which accesses the tape as a block device (using very odd-looking SCSI read and write commands, and a block size of 8192 bytes) that I'd love to be able to play with, just for the hell of it.
Of course, there's always the userspace-NBD-to-generic-SCSI solution... ... but somehow, that solution looks like it's a lot less fun. ;-)
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