From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hd_geometry question.
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 11:09:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020704090926.GA22609@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0207040144500.8911-100000@serv>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-04 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-02 9:16 Martin Schwidefsky
2002-07-02 10:50 ` jw schultz
2002-07-03 0:20 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-07-03 23:48 ` Roman Zippel
2002-07-04 9:09 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2002-07-04 22:15 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-07-08 18:55 ` Alan Cox
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-03 8:13 Martin Schwidefsky
2002-07-03 9:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-07-01 16:02 Martin Schwidefsky
2002-07-01 19:19 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-07-01 19:58 ` Andries Brouwer
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