are 512 byte block still an issue? (WAS: installing rh 7.0)

[Sebastian Moeller <sebastian moeller lur rwth-aachen de>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Iwao Makino wrote:

> It has to have 512block(like NeXT required 1024), otherwise, it will give 
> you all sorts of
> strange problems soon or later.

I would like to ask whether this holds true for all alphas? And if not
which machines can boot from cd-roms with different blocksizes. (And
maybe this information would fit well into the axp-mailing archives.)


TIA
	Sebastian Moeller