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Re: write a long word on the hard disk

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From: Andrue Cope
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 12:30
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Vladimir Afanasyev,

> I know it.
> It was time when I take part in developing controller of HDD.
> But thinked, may be now something changed.
>

It's unusual to see an HDD that doesn't have 512 bytes per sector but 
optical media nearly always has larger sectors.

The weirdest sector size is that used by the AS400 which can be 520 
or 522 bytes.
--
Andrue Cope
[Bicester, UK]
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