Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:14:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:14:46 -0400 Received: from astound-64-85-224-253.ca.astound.net ([64.85.224.253]:27657 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:14:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:15:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Andre Hedrick To: Andries Brouwer cc: Roman Zippel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hd_geometry question. In-Reply-To: <20020704090926.GA22609@win.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1244 Lines: 36 Well it just got adopted to 528 --- whoop ! On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote: > 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? > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Andre Hedrick Linux Serial ATA Solutions LAD Storage Consulting Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/