Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:09:26 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: hd_geometry question. |
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 01:48:33AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > It is rumoured that certain MO disks with a hardware sector size > > of 2048 bytes have partition tables in units of 2048-byte sectors. > > Why is it a rumour? AFAIK under DOS/Windows the partition table is in > units of sector size.
I assume you mean hardware sector size.
Yes, that is what I wrote in http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_tables-2.html#ss2.1
Sector size different from 512 is rare, so it is a bit difficult to find precise details. Do you have docs? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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