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In article <1992Aug19.013435.15349@leland.Stanford.EDU> m@crito.stanford.edu  
(M Carling) writes:
=>In article <1992Aug18.231820.948@convex.com> finger@convex.com (Jay  
=>Finger) writes:
=>> Will the NeXT support sector sizes greater than 1024 bytes?  Since the  
=>sd
=>> driver reads/writes 8K chunks, might one find even better performance  
=>with
=>> 8K sectors?
=>
=>If the disk could do it, and the computer could do it, 8K blocks would be  
=>faster (not much) and increase capacity (again not much). But unless you  
=>have just a few files each of which is quite large, that is not an  
=>efficient way to use space. Also, I don't know of any drives which support  
=>8K blocks. NeXT's current software supports 512 byte or 1024 byte blocks,  
=>and I haven't heard anything that would suggest that they are considering  
=>changing that.
=>

Actually, the NeXT also supports 2048 byte blocks/sectors as that is what the  
CD-Rom has for a sector size...

=>M Carling
=>Director, Bay Area NeXT Group
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