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From: sitongia@hao.ucar.edu (Leonard Sitongia)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Looks like a bug in the 7300 disk driver
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Date: 11 Jan 89 03:02:01 GMT
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In article <513@genesis.ATT.COM> andys@shlepper.ATT.COM (a.b.sherman) writes:
>In article <1360@mtunb.ATT.COM> jcm@mtunb.UUCP (was-John McMillan) writes:
>>In article <813@ttrde.UUCP> pfales@ttrde.UUCP (Peter Fales) writes:
>>>
>>>I have discovered what appears to be a bug in the hard disk device driver
>>>for the unix-pc.
>(R) UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T
>>...
>>It's a FEATURE, not a bug.  Moreover, this feature will never be changed ;^}
>>
>
>It is *NOT* a feature it's a bug.  See below.
>
[ALSO DONNING SUPER HIGH-TECH FLAME RETARDANT NOMEX GEAR]
[hot stuff deleted]

Seems to me that having raw devices do I/O on 512-byte blocks is pretty
standard.  I've seen it in BSD and SYSTEM-V.  Seems to me that this is
just the way it is done.  P. Fales has now learned a convention.  What
is all this argument about?  The original question was indicative of
unawareness about this convention.  That's it.  

[LEAVING FLAME RETARDANT GEAR ON FOR A WHILE]

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