Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA05772 for pups-liszt; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 07:50:42 +1000 (EST) Received: from fudge.uchicago.edu (fudge.uchicago.edu [128.135.136.68]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA05767 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 07:50:35 +1000 (EST) Received: (from eric@localhost) by fudge.uchicago.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA09714; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:50:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:50:11 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809032150.QAA09714@fudge.uchicago.edu> From: Eric Fischer To: bqt@Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: Looking for rationale of fs naming conventions (more????) In-Reply-To: References: Organization: The University of Chicago Cc: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au Precedence: bulk > From: Johnny Billquist > Are you sure that was 256-byte blocks? DEC usually talked about words when > it came to the pdp-11, and one word is 2 bytes, meaning the block is 512 > bytes. Almost all DEC disks have 512 byte blocks on the pdp-11. Anybody > know any exceptions? (Is the RF-11? That disk is before my time...) Oh! You're right -- I looked at the line in the manual that says The disk contains 1024 256-word blocks, numbered 0 to 1023 ... and misread 256-word as 256-byte because it was such a strange concept that Unix would ever be doing word-oriented I/O. That makes a lot more sense. eric