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> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:40:46 +0000
> From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> But what do we do in the case where we do not know the sector size in bytes?
> We have two choices:
> 
> * return the cluster size in bytes;
> * return some number - e.g.: 512 bytes.
> 
> I prefer the former.

What are the practical cases where we don't know the sector size?  Is
that for CDs only, or are there other types of media with this
problem?

For CD, I think we can return 2048 bytes as the cluster size.  The
first of the above 2 alternatives is also okay, I think, provided that
we don't overflow some of the struct members as the result.

> Is there any point returning the sector size, if we do not always know it?

If we do know in most cases, it's justified, I think.

> Are sector sizes always a power of 2?

AFAIK, yes.

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