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A yak shave with SGI's EFS
You might be thinking of OS/400 aka IBM i, which indeed uses 520 byte sectors. Sun used 512.
puzzle
on July 5, 2018
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Yeah, I know about OS/400 using the extra bytes on hard drives for the pointer tags (not a checksum), but what I had in mind were data CDs, whose canonical sector size was 2048.
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