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From: csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod)
Subject: Re: 1.2 Gig drive
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.120829.19066@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:

>BGM stands for Big GeM; at least that what one reference called it.  I think
>can only be used with TOS 1.4.  It sets the sectors (correct term?) to anything
>higher than 512 bytes.  You can go up to 2048 I believe.

BGM partitions can be used with any TOS version. They use bigger
_logical_ sectors; physical sector size remains the same.

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