On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 11:30 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com> wrote: > > gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not > > increase the block size above 512 > > Sorry for the self-follow-up ... but I meant "sector size" there, not "block". IIRC, sector size is controlled at the hardware level(used to be set with jumpers and/or low-level format programs?). I seem to recall that new drives don't really have "sectors" anymore, but have supporting circuits/(EE)proms that emulate that? I've never seen a sector size that could be set by a partioning program. But I've certainly not seen *everything*. > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill