Re: Format of bootable Indy CDs?

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Alex deVries wrote:

> I wrote the ISO you posted on an i386 box with cdrecord.  I suspect my 
> problem I didn't use set the blocksize to 512; exactly how did you burn 
> this CD?

 Blocks on CD media are always 2048 bytes long (disregarding correction
data).  The 512-byte block size as implemented by a few CD drives is
simply an ability to present chunks of native blocks in 512-byte amounts. 
This is just an artifical feature to fulfill a requirement of broken
firmware that asserts that disks have 512-byte sectors.

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