On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:43:56PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > As far as i know, the sector is not the smallest addressable entity on a disk, > in fact it is quite a huge thing. A sector includes all blocks on the radius > of a one side of a platter. This is why it is confusing that they claim that > a sector is 512 bytes. A block is the smallest entity and it is indeed on > most drives 512 bytes. > See here for a description of a sector: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector This article is sort of misleading. I didn't do more than skim the beginning of the first paragraph, but you may find that this is a better explanation: http://www.dewassoc.com/kbase/hard_drives/hard_disk_sector_structures.htm Hope it helps, Ethan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
