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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: 1024-byte floppy sectors?
Message-ID: <2969@atari.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 91 18:18:12 GMT
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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Roger.Sheppard@actrix.gen.nz (Roger Sheppard) writes:
>> ...and hard-disk partitions larger than
>> 16MB are implemented using large logical sectors...
>  ^^^^
>Correct me if I am wrong, but should this not read 32MB ?, I thought
>that this was a typo that caused this problem and was fixed in TOS 1.4

It may or may not have been fixed, but because even people with TOS 1.2 and
(gasp!) TOS 1.0 want to be able to use large partitions, HDX goes to BGM at
16MB for maximum compatibility.  Otherwise you could take a 31MB, non-BGM
partitioned disk to a machine running TOS 1.2 and not be able to get at
the files.

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