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From: wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Big logical sectors and their effects
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.235535.16109@engage.enet.dec.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 23:48:26 GMT
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In article <1990Dec13.141210.26853@wam.umd.edu>, dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) writes...
>What effect does changing the logical sector size have on the system?
>Does it increase minimal file size?  E.g., if I create a 10 byte file,
>will it take up 8K on the disk, since the sector is the smallest
>unit of space that can be allocated?
The minimum file size would be 16k. The allocation unit is 1 CLUSTER not 1
sector. A cluster is equal to 2 sectors (normaly)

>Confuse applications of any kind?  
Some disk analyzer and defragmentation programs like DLII will not work
properly. I assume Ataris new disk analyzer will work with the larger sectors,
since there latest formater uses them.

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