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Article #3856Re: 1024 byte sectors
From: Edward John Kalenda
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 03:33
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 1990 03:33
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The only way I've ever seen to do this is to have a disk on the system which has been formatted with 1024 byte sectors. Before DOS loads your drivers, it allocates the space for the disk cache buffers based on the largest sector size found so far on the hard disks in the system. Floppys are assumed to have 512 byte sectors regardless of reality. Some OEM versions of DOS can only handle sector sizes of 512 and smaller. I can't even think of a way to cheat on this one since you HAVE to get DOS to allocate 1024 byte buffers. I guess you'll need to get or borrow at 1024 byte sector hard drive. Your format utility may let you do it to your present disk but would you risk it? Ed ekalenda@cup.portal.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!ekalenda From: ekalenda@cup.portal.com (Edward John Kalenda) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: 1024 byte sectors Message-ID: <36786@cup.portal.com> Date: 11 Dec 90 03:33:21 GMT References: <1990Dec10.144757.15032@maytag.waterloo.edu> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 14