Excerpted from message dated 01-27-96, Thomas Seeling to Mike Ruskai:

TS>4 sectors is the smallest size FAT formatters usually apply.
  >2-sector-clusters are only used on 1.2MB floppy disks. Anyway, disks
  >are handled in a special way, the clusters of 1.4MB disks are 1
  >sector in size.

Hello Thomas--

    As the lawyers say, I think you misspoke yourself .  My systems
format 1.2 MB diskettes and 1.44 MB diskettes at 1 sector per cluster,
and 720 KB diskettes at 2 sectors per cluster.  Just to confuse the
matter further, my OS/2 system formats my F: 7MB partition (on one of my
hard drives) at 8 sectors per cluster (I use the 7 MB partition as a
"pseudo virtual disk" to hold intermediate files manufactured during
compiling and linking; it is reformatted with STARTUP.CMD so junk left
from last time is deleted without any thought on my part.)

          --Murray

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