current-users: Re: 1024 Byte Sectors

Subject: Re: 1024 Byte Sectors
To: None <current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Julian H Stacey <Julian.H.Stacey@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
List: current-users
Date: 09/11/1994 23:01:24

Mark Gooderum <gooderum@sctc.com> wrote:
> > Mark Gooderum <gooderum@SCTC.COM> wrote:
> > > Is there anything funky with using a disk w/1024 byte sectors?
> > 
> > Have you considered reformatting it to 512 ?
> > --
> > Julian Stacey <stacey@freefall.cdrom.com>
> 
> Yes...the answer is partly I don't know that these drives support it and
> I don't have any tool that lets me try.
Use the BIOS on the SCSI controller card of your iPC (If your running an x86)

I was once sold a Seagate 1G scsi disk formatted as 1K, & did exactly that.

Julian Stacey <stacey@freefall.cdrom.com>