Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:35:56 +0100 | From | "Seewer Philippe" <> | Subject | Re: RFC: disk geometry via sysfs |
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Phillip Susi wrote: > linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > >> You can make your own: >> >> Pretend a sector is 512 bytes. >> Use the maximum number of cylinders of either 65535 or 1024 >> Use the maximum number of sectors up to 255 >> Use the maxumum number of heads up to 255 >> >> >> Try the above with 1024 cylinders first. If it doesn't fit, use >> 65535. That's all the BIOS does. It's just used to fit the >> stuff into registers for 16-bit BIOS calls (see int 0x13). >> >> > > > Actually, different bioses do it in different ways, that is just one way > ( and possibly the most popular ). The same bios can even do it > differently depending on what options are selected in the bios setup. > Of course, this only effects Microsoft operating systems because > everyone else is sane and supports LBA.
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