Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

From: Anton Altaparmakov (aia21@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2000 - 17:30:54 EST

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At 13:03 29/09/2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 02:20:25AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > And if it has an odd number then you can't read the last sector at all! -
> > That's what prevents linear raid and proper NTFS support from working on
> > "odd sized" partitions...
>
>But the question was about reading from disk, not about reading
>from partition.

Yes, you are quite right, sorry. I really shouldn't try to think and write
emails after 2am... It obviously doesn't work too well...

Regards,

Anton

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