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    > From: Bakul Shah

    > one dealt with it by formatting the disk so that the logical blocks N &
    > N+1 (from the OS PoV) were physically more than 1 sector apart. No
    > clever coding needed!

An old hack. ('Nothing new', and all that.) DEC Rx01/02 floppies used the
same thing, circa 1976.

	Noel