Re: DVD-RAM on FC3

[Peter Arremann <loony loonybin org>]

On Monday 07 March 2005 18:53, Rick Stevens wrote:
> CD-ROMs also use a 2048-byte sector size.  AFAIK, only disks actually
> use 512-byte sector sizes.  Well, way back when, Sun used a 512-byte
> sector size on CDs, too (Sun SPARC SLC, etc.).  I never did figure out
> why.  Fortunately, I had some old NEC Multispin CD drives that could be
> jumpered either way, so I put on a switch.

512 was needed for booting only - otherwise a regular CD drive would work as 
well.. That way they didn't have to mock around with the OBP and extending 
the firmware of a cdrom is quite easy...

Peter.