Re: 2048 byte/sector problems with kernel 2.4

[Alan Cox]

> MO disks which have normal 512 bytes/sector it all works flawlessly but
> as soon
> as a put in a 1.3GB disk which uses the 2048 bytes/sector format it all
> goes
> wrong. As soon as I write something to the disk by issuing a cp command

It will. Linux 2.4.x still hasn't had the scsi disk block size bugs fixed.
Stick to 2.2.19.

> I also tried it with 2.2.18 there it works but it seems to be utterly
> slow. I'm using kernel 2.4.2(XFS version to be precise).

M/O disks are slow. At a minimum make sure you are using a physical block size
of 2048 bytes when using 2048 byte media and plenty of memory to cache stuff
when reading. Seek times on M/O media are pretty poor