At 06:18 PM 10/3/2010, jassen...@itelefonica\.com\.br wrote: > I mean the BIOS in the machine I am using (Award, >dated 12/08/1994) has LBA support, with >1 logical block= 8 sectors. This value seems hardcoded.
Where do you get this info from? It just doesn't make any sense, even the old 28bit LBA addressing allows for drives up to 128GB, and I would have yet to see a drive/BIOS that does NOT use 512 bytes/sector for drives in that range... LBA as in "Logical Block Addressing" means that each sector on the drive is addressed with a sequential sector number instead of the previously used CHS (Cylinder-Head-Sector) method. There is nowhere in ATA-1 (ANSI standard X3.221-1994, which in fact defines the 28 bit LBA addressing scheme) one word mentioned about "a logical block consisting of multiple physical sectors"... Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
