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From: Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk
Date: Tue,  4 Oct 2011 13:30:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOw7k5hGWG16a5fTjtXBEBd2-gt=XnhjEJKFNjdPrB46_6=dBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9da3668a01e050b4a66b1eb01da78e1@chula.quanstro.net>

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i had in mind something that would make the drive look as much like an old
drive as possible,
including lying about simply everything, including the underlying physical
sector size. surely that's
suitable for the PC heritage.

On 4 October 2011 13:17, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:

> On Tue Oct  4 08:09:55 EDT 2011, charles.forsyth@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > no, i meant to select what the drive advertises. it would be a bit
> > disconcerting if flipping a bit had to reformat a drive!
>
> well they advertize *two* different sector sizes, a logical size and a
> physical size.  the drive never changes the physical format, but may
> do read/modify/write cycles in the case of writes that don't cover a
> full physical sector.
>
> - erik
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-04 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-24  0:20 slash
2011-09-24  8:07 ` David du Colombier
2011-09-24  8:34   ` Steve Simon
2011-09-29 23:54   ` slash
2011-09-30  8:31     ` Richard Miller
2011-09-30  8:54       ` Richard Miller
2011-09-30  9:44         ` Charles Forsyth
2011-09-30 14:06           ` erik quanstrom
2011-09-30 14:16           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-09-30 14:00         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 10:36           ` slash
     [not found]           ` <CAEaiYYzXCfB2KbnDzBHTXytrfQqGUCepRg5Aj-c14ZoEz5hHaw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-01 13:51             ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 15:27               ` slash
2011-10-01 16:14             ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-01 16:23               ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 11:28                 ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 11:52                   ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 12:01                     ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 12:05                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:09                       ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 12:13                         ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 12:19                           ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 12:27                           ` Richard Miller
     [not found]                       ` <CAOw7k5i3i+w_=pUuFjUCnxH1Tp5U0vh3v7wFUoBddfML9xG+ag@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-04 12:17                         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:30                           ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
     [not found]                           ` <CAOw7k5hGWG16a5fTjtXBEBd2-gt=XnhjEJKFNjdPrB46_6=dBg@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-04 12:34                             ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:05                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:15                     ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 12:17                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:17                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 12:33                     ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 12:52                       ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 13:05                         ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 14:13                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 15:56                         ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 16:00                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 16:42                             ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04 16:45                               ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04 17:52                                 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-04 18:05                                   ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04 18:24                                 ` Bakul Shah
2011-10-04 18:29                                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-03 23:07               ` slash
2011-10-06  7:35                 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-07 10:49                   ` slash
2011-10-07 11:15                     ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-07 13:03                       ` Steve Simon
2011-10-10 10:32                         ` Peter A. Cejchan
     [not found]                   ` <CAEaiYYya5eq3CoVbbZGqPf91_kMEcbkCQ_8WEL4yakFdenek5g@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-07 13:17                     ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-10  2:32                       ` slash
     [not found]                       ` <CAEaiYYy36ydHfw=Tg2YC9x9gEW7=MAHF2C6-UVbgr36G-qv=rA@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-10  3:11                         ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-10 10:15                           ` slash
     [not found]                         ` <d0c02b8a1e36c9329902a1183192d732@chula.quanstro.>
     [not found]                           ` <CAEaiYYxoHLgMZddGZ4gCPvW-GuqwRYzytXgfezoi+vjUgxx9tg@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-10 13:17                             ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-11  8:51                               ` slash
2011-10-11  8:55                                 ` slash
2011-10-11 15:01                                 ` slash
2011-10-11 15:36                                   ` David du Colombier
2011-10-12 19:24                                     ` slash
2011-10-13  7:07                   ` Peter A. Cejchan
     [not found]               ` <CAEaiYYxsUzf70Ffhd3hzsBZcMb5=2yhfSCv5-nJ+_27wYbJKig@mail.gmail.c>
2011-10-03 23:10                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04  0:02                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-04  7:58                   ` dexen deVries
2011-10-04  9:52               ` Richard Miller
2011-10-04  9:34           ` Richard Miller
2011-10-07  7:47       ` [9fans] io patterns erik quanstrom
2011-09-24  8:30 ` [9fans] copying fossil filesystem to a bigger disk Steve Simon

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