11 Sep
2012
11 Sep
'12
4 a.m.
Indeed. I've seen hard drives with sector sizes
all over the place.
256 bytes and 1024 bytes weren't unknown on SCSI devices .
The author's probably never even seen an IBM 1311 or Bryant 4000.
Or most of IBM's big disks until the 1990s. CKD "sectors" are variable
length.
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Will