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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