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> >> Hey, that suggests a fun topic: oddball sector sizes.
>
> >> "Normal" sector sizes would include the obvious 512 bytes, and also
> >> 128 bytes for floppies.
> > 256 is also very typical.
>
>I have a SCSI floppy drive - itself an oddity, in my experience - that
>has 256-byte sectors. I keep it not so much because I want a SCSI
>floppy per se as because it's the only SCSI device I have with
><512-byte sectors. (My OS of choice does not play very nice with SCSI
>devices of other than 512-byte sectors, CD drives excepted. I have
>hopes of someday fixing this. I also have a disk - a big, 5?"
>full-height drive of, I think, about 1G - that has 1024-byte sectors,
>which I keep as an example of a device with >512-byte sectors.)
If you want to store/carry something smaller with a large sector size, get
yourself a Tandy Portable Disk Drive (FM encoded 3.5" floppy drive) --> 2
sectors per track, 1280 bytes per sector. ;-)
Small, light, works off the serial port, and ontopic!!! ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Thu Feb 24 2005 - 23:27:57 GMT