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Re: Barracuda sector size

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From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 00:00
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Paul Hill said, 

>>Thanks for this - I hadn't realised that HDtoolbox had been upgraded with
>>WB3.1.

> It has, but you'd hardly notice.  Still looks like a 1.3 application.

And still runs without *any* extra libraries etc. which is essential
for a critical tool that may be used on a totally broken system.

> The block size is for the filesystem to use, it's got nothing to do with
> the physical disk parameters.  Using a bigger block size makes loading
> large files quicker at the expense of wasting disk space (e.g. with a 2K
> block size the smallet amount of space a 1 byte file will use is 2K).

A 1 byte file would use 4K, 2K for the file contents and 2K for the
header block.


Neil
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