At 8:54 AM 12/19/95, Erik Bertelsen wrote:
>On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Shawn Pearce wrote:
>
>>
>> MacOS sectors are any size they want.  IE - depends on disk size, since
>> there is a max of signed long blocks (i think), then there has to be more
>> than just 512 bytes per sector.  I think we could fit a lot into there.
>>
>Be careful with the terminology.
>
>The disk is always formatted to 512 byte sectors, but while running MacOS,
>the HFS uses it in terms of allocation units, which are limited in number
>and therefore larger for larger disks.
>
>NetBSD sees the same disk just as an ordinary disk with 512 byte sectors.
>
>As the boot blocks are not part of an HFS partition, we are talking about
>"real" sectors here.
>

Sorry!  Now i understand what you were trying to say.

Shawn.

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