Re: reading 1 hardsector size, not one block size

[Peter Samuelson]

  [Hedrick]
> > FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF                  FS-DeStroke
> > DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD            OEM-DeStroke
> > OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO              MAN-DeStroke
> > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MAN-ALL

[Viro]
> It would help if you started with decoding TLA and TLAs...

I guess FS is FS like you said ... OEM is who labels the box on the
shelf, and I guess MAN is manufacturer.  I would have said "Mfr".

I'm still not clear on the difference between the roles of the OEM and
the Mfr here -- are they really two different parties that *both* muck
with the drive firmware to change the visible sector count?  What does
the OEM do that the Mfr hasn't already done, and why?

Peter
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