[Coco] Drivewire question

[Bob Devries]

yeah, you're right. I was thinking along the lines of a modified server.

My thoughts would be to have a front panel switch (buttons) to select sector 
sizes of 128, 256, 512 or 1024 bytes per sector.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren A" <mechacoco at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire question


> On 4/20/09, Bob Devries wrote:
>> ummm,
>> wouldn't larger sectors mean a smaller LSN, given the same physical disk
>> size?
>>
> ---
> Not if an LSN always refers to a 256 byte block of data.  512 byte
> sectors would require two LSNs (and two transactions) using the
> current DriveWire protocol.
>
> Darren
>
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