Sector sizes over 1024 bytes?

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From: Jay Finger
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:49

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Can the NeXT work with drives with sector sizes over 1024 bytes?  4096,
8192 for example.  Has anybody tried it?  Do you gain anything speedwise?


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