On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:54:24 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:

>On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:52:00 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
>
>>block size of 512 uses less than 1% of a track on a 3390. 4K
>>uses 86%, which is tolerable.
>
>A single 512 byte block on a 3390 uses less than 1% of the 56,664
>byte capacity of the track.
>
>Twelve 4096 byte blocks (the most that will fit on a 3390 track) uses
>86.7% of the track capacity.
>
Sounds like a biased comparison to me.

-- gil

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