There's been some talk here recently about partitions versus cylinder
boundaries, and when or even if they need to line up properly.
I'm confused. For many years now I've ignored cylinders completely
because I've read that modern disks are addressed by sector number only,
and disks don't know
On Samstag 27 Februar 2010, walt wrote:
There's been some talk here recently about partitions versus cylinder
boundaries, and when or even if they need to line up properly.
I'm confused. For many years now I've ignored cylinders completely
because I've read that modern disks are addressed
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
The recent thread about the new disks with 1024-byte sectors has me
even more confused.
hehe Very sorry. ;-)
IIUC the new disks *do* care (at least) about where a partition
begins relative to it's own 1024-byte hardware
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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
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