-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 05:23:50PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007 16:27, burns.ethan@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:43:56PM +0200, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > 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. That's why CHS addressing has been obsoleted by LBA addressing: you just tell the drive "I want sector 1234567" and it will figure out by itself which sector on which track in which zone it is. Erik - -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGB+8g/PlVHJtIto0RAmH3AJ422UwAmBwCGhMFMWEk0cVfkv6k8wCfRIey U7LjV34rh7MfDJKAQEWazAU= =yaJi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
