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[Ken Hansen]

THe magic was exposed withthe following:

> 4. Then after a while:
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>        Rd capacity block size (512) disagrees with sector size (2048)

Suns require a differnt block size than most (PC) applications. Sun, SGI and
other workstations seem to share this requirement...

The CD-ROM is read in itty-bitty 512 byte blocks *all the time*, AFAIK...

Ken

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From: <Oscar.G.Farah at census.gov>
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Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 8:14 AM
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> Ken,
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> Thanks for the quick reply. Let me ask this:  Was the data " SunOS Release
5.5
> ... (sd6):" obtained by reading the CD? If yes, does
> this imply that the beginning of the CD has 512 byte blocks and the rest
> of it has 2048??