On Jul 4, 12:35, Jules Richardson wrote:
>
> I need to create a CD with files on for access by an SGI system. Of
> course, the SGI uses a CDROM drive that uses 512 byte blocks. My
desktop
> PC's the only thing with a CD burner in it, which is naturally set to
a
> block size of 2048.
>
> >From the point of view of creating a CD, does this matter? Or is the
> block size issue only to do with transferring data from the CD unit
to
> the host, and iso9660 is the same on both platforms?
No, it doesn't matter. The block size is just a matter of how the data
is transferred between host and drive, and cdrecord or whatever will
write 2048-byte physical blocks no matter what. The drive that
eventually reads the CD back will de-block them as required. It's a
bit like CP/M, if you've come across CP/M's idea of 128-byte logical
sectors mapped onto whatever physical sector size (commonly 256 or 512
bytes for 5.25" floppies) the sytem uses.
But you should be making EFS CDs for IRIX ;-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Sun Jul 04 2004 - 18:12:52 BST