11 Sep
2012
11 Sep
'12
4:11 a.m.
On 09/10/2012 11:42 PM, David Riley wrote:
I mean, he wrote Berkeley FFS, so I suppose he should have some
idea that there were other sector sizes. I'd be willing to chalk
it up to a brain fart, though it seems like a big oversight. I
hadn't even noticed that particular line; I think the rest of the
article is fairly informative.
...and I just read who wrote the article. I am completely
flabbergasted. I wonder if he did this to see if anyone would call him
on it? If ANYONE knows, he does. WTF?
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
"From the time of their first availability in the 1950s until about
2010, the sector size on disks has been 512 bytes."
This isn't even true for SCSI disks, much less all the different kinds
before that.
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.