On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:02:44PM +0200, Bernd Sieker wrote:
> On 01.04.01, 20:41:29, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > 
> > is it possible to reformat IDE drive with other sector size (1024
> > preferably)?
> > 
> > it is possible with SCSI giving little space and performance gain.
> > 
> 
> I rather doubt that the hardware sector size makes any real difference
> on modern drives.

For modern drives I suspect it's fake anyway. I've heard that IBM
drives have one big sector per track (so it's a variable sector size).

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