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From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: 1024-byte floppy sectors?
Message-ID: <91177.114346ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET>
Date: 27 Jun 91 15:20:51 GMT
References: <3251@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <2964@atari.UUCP>
 <1991Jun20.111657.5952@actrix.gen.nz> <2969@atari.UUCP>
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Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany

In article <2969@atari.UUCP>, apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) says:
>
>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.
>
But I really would like to know, whether such partitions DO work under TOS 1.04
(GEMDOS 0.15). I think they do, but how can I be sure?
Reason: my harddisk partitioning utility automatically switches to larger
sectors (and BGM) for partitions larger than 16 MB. But when manually editing
partition and sector sizes, it allows for 32MB partitions with 512 byte
sectors (warning, that these partitions can't be used under old GEMDOS
versions).
Is this behaviour tolerable, or should I remove this 'feature'?

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>Opinions expressed above do not necessarily     -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
>reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.      ...ames!atari!apratt
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