Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:29:38 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry? |
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> You couldn't even tell where such boundaries exist, or what the real > block size of the underlying media is. Cyliners are all different sizes.
Not even if you do timing tests? I know people have done tests that pinpoint where the xfer rate changes, for example. I'm sure it wouldn't be easy, but I bet you could get some useful information. And at the very least, remapped sectors should be easy to spot...
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