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to: Mike Ruskai
from: Thomas Seeling
date: 1996-01-27 15:13:00
subject: Cluster algorithm

Hallo, Mike!

*** Am Dienstag 23. Januar 1996 um 03:22 schrieb Mike Ruskai an All:

 MR> The reason I ask is because I have a 60MB FAT partition with 2048 byte
 MR> clusters, but according to my reasoning, it should have only 1024 byte
 MR> clusters.

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.


Tschau...Thomas

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