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Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: On a Series III hard disk, what's a "sector" - I forget...

2010-11-17 by Gordon JC Pearce

On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:45 +0000, karmagician wrote:
> Actually, found it in the manual - 1 sector = 256 bytes, so 4 sectors = 1k.

I was going to say, normal Boring Old SCSI has 256-byte sectors.

256kByte sectors would be quite impressive.  You'd a disk nearly 670
feet across...

Gordon MM0YEQ

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