From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: Ronald Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] DEC RL01/RL02 RX01/RX02 Disk Image Creator
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 14:59:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABH=_VQnSnRASpeX84fwAosGyYi=zzxc4_o8KD9JYNoFWekCow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5A39465-802B-4AE2-92DE-84D4BE27CB61@ronnatalie.com>
On 6/2/20, Ronald Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
> Except on the RX’s. The RX01 was 128 byte sectors and the later ones 256
> and a odd interleaving strategy. However, the boot block and the rest of
> the file systems (both UNIX and RT at least)
> just aggregated the smaller (logical) sectors together to make a 512 byte
> one.
At least they all supported fixed-length sectors. Was there ever a
Unix implementation that supported IBM-style CKD disk devices?
-Paul W.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-02 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-01 10:18 Paul Riley
2020-06-01 13:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-06-01 22:35 ` Paul Riley
2020-06-01 13:04 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-01 22:45 ` Paul Riley
2020-06-01 23:59 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-06-02 4:57 ` Paul Riley
2020-06-02 13:31 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-02 13:52 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-02 15:44 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-06-02 16:26 ` Warner Losh
2020-06-02 18:08 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-02 18:59 ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2020-06-02 19:08 ` Adam Thornton
2020-06-01 15:04 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-01 22:54 ` Paul Riley
2020-06-01 15:18 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-02 0:14 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-02 1:26 ` Ronald Natalie
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