On 2/21/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

The whole reason that drive manufacturers went from 512 byte sectors to
4096 byte sectors was so that they could run the ECC over a longer
number of bits.


I would have thought that the initial reason for this was to allow 8x
bigger disk drives before  running out of sector numbers.

   carl
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   carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
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