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- From: shim@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sam Shim)
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- Subject: Re: How to change sectors-per-cluster?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.145715.10240@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 14:57:15 GMT
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- In article <22014@optima.cs.arizona.edu> jaw@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Wilson) writes:
- >My hard disk is formatted with 4-sector (2048-byte) clusters. I want
- >to use 16-sector (8192-byte) clusters. How can I change it?
- >
- >The details:
- >I planned to install Stacker 2.0. Trouble is, Stacker only works with
- >16-sector clusters (except for an XT fix that doesn't apply), and the
- >notebook's hard disk is setup with 4-sector clusters. So I need to
-
- Stacker should run fine on hard drives with 4-sector clusters. I have
- not had any problems running Stacker or 4-sector clusters. I believe
- Stacker uses 16-sector clusters internally, but will use any DOS standard
- cluster format for storage of the Stacked drive.
-
- -Sam-
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