Re: [Xen-devel] blkfront/back and sector size of 2048 with CDROM's

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/2/08 00:09, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It looks like mounting a physical CDROM under the windows gpl pv drivers
> doesn't work, and I suspect that the problem is because the CDROM uses a
> sector size of 2048 instead of 512.
> 
> Do the pages passed between the front and backend scale to using
> different sector sizes, or do I have to do some magic to fudge them back
> to 512?

The 'sectors' referenced in blkif requests are always 512 bytes. So if you
read 'sector-size' of 2048 from xenstore during blkif setup, that means that
the #sector alignments and sizes you send in requests must be multiples of
4.

 -- Keir



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