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Neil Bothwick wrote Re: Barracuda sector size:
>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.

True.  No reason to use a hardcoded topaz font though.

>> 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.

Smart arse!

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Paul