Date   : Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:03:33 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: reading data from old hard disk

Alex Taylor wrote:
> Phil Blundell wrote:
> > If I remember right, ADFS uses 512-byte sectors
> > natively on the Archimedes.
> 
> Looking into it, I think you're right. For some reason I'd assumed
> they were 256-byte sectors.
 
RISC OS ADFS uses 256-byte sectors for 'L' format disks, D and
later format disks use 1024-byte sectors.
 
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