On Monday 26 March 2007 16:27, burns.ethan@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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 I c. 10x! However, in LDD3 they did not explain how to define a geometry with zone bit recording. I.e. a geometry with different zone track groups. -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
