Re: msdosfs and small sectors

[Roger Brooks <R.S.Brooks%liverpool.ac.uk@localhost>]

On 09/10/14 23:08, Rhialto wrote:
> On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 22:53:27 +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > (and ICL system25 whcih wanted 100 byte sectors).
> Or IBM's CMS which used to have 800 byte sectors.
>
> -Olaf.

And there were DEC disks which could be used on both DEC20 (where they 
were formatted with 9-bit bytes) and VAXen (where they were formatted 
with 8-bit bytes).   If i remember correctly, this mean that while 
sectors were 512 x 9-bit bytes on a DEC20, on a VAX the same disk would 
have sectors of 576 x 8 bit bytes.


Roger