From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 48-bit Drives Incorrectly reporting 255 Heads?
Date: 21 Aug 2003 08:41:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1061451704.3044.8.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030821053824.GA21451@pegasys.ws>
On Iau, 2003-08-21 at 06:38, jw schultz wrote:
> A 240 head drive would have to have multiple heads per
> surface or the stack of disks on the spindle would be about
> 5 feet tall.
PC class hardware is all about layers of compatibility hacks.
IDE "geometry" became fictional before 540Mb disks. Sectors/track
etc is all made up too nowdays.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-21 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-20 19:31 John Riggs
2003-08-20 19:47 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-20 20:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-21 5:38 ` jw schultz
2003-08-21 6:26 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-21 7:41 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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