Subject: Re: 4K sector disks
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/24/2006 19:29:02
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 01:59:14PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> > Subject: 4K sector disks
>
> Given how they measure gigabytes, I'm surprised they didn't go with
> 4000-byte sectors.
I've used a system which expected disks to have 100-byte sectors.
However the only ones I actually used packed 5 logical sectors
into 512-byte physical ones.
David
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