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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.   
      
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