Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!gilla Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Cluster Size on disks? Date: Saturday, 7 Apr 1990 00:50:59 EDT From: "Arnold G. Gill" Message-ID: <90097.005059GILLA@QUCDN.BITNET> References: <90096.100956KDA101@psuvm.psu.edu> The cluster size depends explicitly on the software used to format them. For example, with MS-DOS 2.1, the cluster size on the hard disk was 8k. At MS-DOS 3, the cluster size dropped to the current 2k. I don't know if it is any different for the very large (40+ Mb) hard disks, but it might be. I found it interesting to find out that the high-density disks have 1/2k cluster sizes. Is this due to the fact that the extra address space needed is available on 286 machines, but never on 8088/8086 ones? ------- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | Arnold Gill | | | Queen's University at Kingston | If I hadn't wanted it heard, | | BITNET : gilla@qucdn | I wouldn't have said it. | | X-400 : Arnold.Gill@QueensU.CA | | | INTERNET : gilla@qucdn.queensu.ca | | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-