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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:09:26 +0200
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 01:48:33AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:

> > It is rumoured that certain MO disks with a hardware sector size
> > of 2048 bytes have partition tables in units of 2048-byte sectors.
> 
> Why is it a rumour? AFAIK under DOS/Windows the partition table is in
> units of sector size.

I assume you mean hardware sector size.

Yes, that is what I wrote in
	http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_tables-2.html#ss2.1

Sector size different from 512 is rare, so it is a bit difficult to find
precise details. Do you have docs?
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