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Re: sectors to gbs
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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001 10:34:31 -0700
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Wirt writes:
> Sectors are becoming a somewhat obsolete unit of measurement.

Especially when I can't think of a single thing on the 3000 that is stored
in physical units of 256 byte sectors any more.

MPE disk space is allocated in 4KB "pages", and a physical sector on disk is
generally 512 bytes these days.

But for forward compatibility the "sector" will be with us forever.

Trivia quiz: What's funny about a :DISCFREE A listing?

G.

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