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In article <350BCF33.8238FFB3@barker-tech.demon.co.uk>,
Alan R Barker <alan@barker-tech.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Subject: Re: OS 8.1 & HFS+   THE ANSWER ?
>From: Alan R Barker
>Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 12:53:10 +0000
>Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac
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>Gordon Laurie wrote:
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>> Or you could use Plusmaker like I did on an external 500Mb disk, it took 10
>> minutes and no data was lost (and yes I did back up first!). When someone
>> gets a disk repair app out for HFS+ then I'll do the rest of my disks. Got
>> back about 18Mb from the 500Mb drive.
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>Were you able to get 0.5K block sizes? I've used PlusMaker and can only get 1K
>blocks  - the same as the standad Mac tools give. I'm using a 5320 with a
>1.2GB disk partitioned into 4 equal chunks of around 303Mb.

According to the manual that came with Plusmaker it automatically gives you
0.5k blocks, I can't remember for sure what size the blocks are on my
external drive, but checking with MacSlack it would appear to have done
0.5k blocks. 

Just checked with Norton, yes 512byte blocks. Curious.

Gordon


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