File System and ZBR drives

[Alan Barclay]

In article <67930001 at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> balon at hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Tom Balon) writes:
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>	How do different versions of unix deal with new ZBR (Zone Bit
>	Recording)) style disk drives. These drives are divided into 
>	several zones with a different number of sectors/track in each 
>	zone. 
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For what I've worked out it the controller for these drives do sector
translation, so the OS sees a disk with normal fixed sectors per track.
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