Re: hd_geometry question.

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@serialata.org)
Date: Thu Jul 04 2002 - 17:15:47 EST


Well it just got adopted to 528 --- whoop !

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> 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?
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Andre Hedrick
Linux Serial ATA Solutions
LAD Storage Consulting Group

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