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From: ekalenda@cup.portal.com (Edward John Kalenda)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: 1024 byte sectors
Message-ID: <36786@cup.portal.com>
Date: 11 Dec 90 03:33:21 GMT
References: <1990Dec10.144757.15032@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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The only way I've ever seen to do this is to have a disk on the system which
has been formatted with 1024 byte sectors. Before DOS loads your drivers,
it allocates the space for the disk cache buffers based on the largest
sector size found so far on the hard disks in the system. Floppys are
assumed to have 512 byte sectors regardless of reality. Some OEM versions
of DOS can only handle sector sizes of 512 and smaller.

I can't even think of a way to cheat on this one since you HAVE to get 
DOS to allocate 1024 byte buffers. I guess you'll need to get or borrow
at 1024 byte sector hard drive. Your format utility may let you do it to
your present disk but would you risk it?

Ed
ekalenda@cup.portal.com