I'd suspect 64 heads and 32 sectors has something to do with SCSI
geometry, but I wouldn't really know.
Only reason for it I can think of is each cylinder is exactly 1MB. =)
I don't claim to know anything, though.
What's the SHC on a zip 250 disk anyway?
On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 32/64/96
> >
> > There is a forced 64 head limit in ide-floppy.c
>
> I'd like to know why the forced limit is there
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