Hi
03 Dec 2000, "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> LB> RAM drive set with 512 sectors, but my HDD has sector size 2048
>> LB> on the primary drive, and temporarily 30K on the 2nd HDD.
>> these are CLUSTERS
>> FAT groups together sectors and forms clusters.
>> So you have to administer less units.
>> a clustersize of 8KB means that a cluster consists of 16 512 byte
>> clusters.
LB> Why, if what you say is correct, do all the programs I have show
LB> "sector size" as whatever, and NOT "cluster" or "allocation unit" ???
don't ask me ...
but in reality it is NOT important how they call it ...
than can say apple size, or or something therelike to it ....
LB> But I think somehow the terminology has gotten twisted.
I just looked on the web ... and found that:
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/07/os1607.010.html
pcmagazine has put up a table which compares disk size versus _cluster_
size on fat32
disks clusters
-8GB 4K
-16GB 8k
-32GB 16K
32GB- 32K
LB> l.d.
CU, Ricsi
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