----- Original Message ---- > From: Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: > > Is there really any need for the "cylinder" these days? > No, not as I understand it. > There may be some bits of software that suggest they can use them, but > I think with the advent of LBA directly addressing CHS is now retired > with only sector addressing being important due to the way the data is > physically placed on the drive. Who cares what cylinder it's on, and > who cares which head is getting the data? It doesn't matter to us > users...
True user's don't care. However, Boot Loader writers (e.g. grub) need to care about it since LBA is not quite available right away - you have to focus on other things until you can load the rest of the boot loader. So it's not 100% dead, but yes - most things no longer need to care about it. Ben
