Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Big logical sectors and their effects Message-ID: <27926@cs.yale.edu> Date: 21 Dec 90 19:39:34 GMT References: <3398@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de> <2787@atari.UUCP> <3409@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: ginkgo.theory.cs.yale.edu Originator: fischer@ginkgo.CS.Yale.Edu In article <3409@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de> csbrod@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes: >apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes: > >>and csbrod@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes: >>>Does this imply that 1 sector per cluster is perfectly legal with all >>>TOS versions? > >>Don't press your luck. :-) It's not guaranteed, it hasn't been tested, >>and it's not to be relied on. No, it's not legal. > >Pity. Would be nice for data exchange on 1.44 MB disks with ATs. >For some reason, 1.44 MB disks have 1 sector/cluster on PCs. I use 1 sector/cluster in my ramdisk and it has given me no problems whatsoever under TOS 1.4. Allan's message was the first I knew that it wasn't "legal". -- ================================================== | Michael Fischer | ==================================================