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|    mutazilah@gmail.com to wolfgang kern    |
|    Re: sector size    |
|    23 Apr 22 17:33:44    |
      From: muta...@gmail.com              On Sunday, April 24, 2022 at 12:50:05 AM UTC+10, wolfgang kern wrote:              > this 4K sectors joined in for lower costs and       > speed reasons, it wasn't a size issue.              Thanks for that info.              In that case - do you know what happens with a       disk drive that has 4096-byte sectors and a BIOS?              If you do a BIOS INT 13H to read a sector using LBA,       does it read 512 bytes or 4096 bytes?              Thanks. Paul.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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