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Unknown
Each spec notes 512 byte per sector. What format?
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C A Upsdell
Unknown said:Let me give you this test! Is there the same amount of sectors (your words)
on
the outer track as the inner most track of a HD?
How is this relevant to your preposterous claim?
In any case, the answer is: it depends. Historically the number has
been the same, but this is not true of drives that use ZBR (see
(http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/Z/zoned_bit_recording.html and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_bit_recording). Such drives have a
variable number of SECTORS per track, depending on the track.
C
C A Upsdell
Unknown said:Each spec notes 512 byte per sector. What format?
Who cares what format? If their hard drives have 512 bytes per sector,
then they have sectors, no matter the format.
U
Unknown
Bigmouth----That was for Ken.
C A Upsdell said:How is this relevant to your preposterous claim?
In any case, the answer is: it depends. Historically the number has been
the same, but this is not true of drives that use ZBR (see
(http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/Z/zoned_bit_recording.html and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_bit_recording). Such drives have a
variable number of SECTORS per track, depending on the track.
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Unknown
What if it is NTFS???????? 512 bytes per sector? What sector?
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Gerry
Unknown
You can tell me I am mistaken but it is my understanding that drives are
provided by hard disk manufacturers unformatted. The drive in question
was not formatted as NTFS but as HPFS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPFS
Quote from link:
A more efficient use of disk space (files are not stored using
multiple-sector clusters but on a per-sector basis)
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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You can tell me I am mistaken but it is my understanding that drives are
provided by hard disk manufacturers unformatted. The drive in question
was not formatted as NTFS but as HPFS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPFS
Quote from link:
A more efficient use of disk space (files are not stored using
multiple-sector clusters but on a per-sector basis)
--
Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C
C A Upsdell
Unknown said:What if it is NTFS???????? 512 bytes per sector? What sector?
The file system is irrelevant. A hard drive has sectors, as listed on
numerous HD manufacturers specs. A file system imposes its own logical
structure on top of the physical structure of the HD, and the file
system may or may not have a logical unit corresponding to a physical
sector. I can imagine a file system, for example, whose smaller unit of
storage were 1K, and it could call that unit of storage a block, or a
cluster, or a page, or whatever it liked: but the underlying physical
sectors are still there.
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Unknown
You're as confused as a cow on astroturf.
C A Upsdell said:The file system is irrelevant. A hard drive has sectors, as listed on
numerous HD manufacturers specs. A file system imposes its own logical
structure on top of the physical structure of the HD, and the file system
may or may not have a logical unit corresponding to a physical sector. I
can imagine a file system, for example, whose smaller unit of storage were
1K, and it could call that unit of storage a block, or a cluster, or a
page, or whatever it liked: but the underlying physical sectors are still
there.