In <[email protected]>, on 12/16/2014
at 10:55 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> said:
>These two make up the 6 byte
BDW+RDW is 8 bytes.
>without exceeding geometry.
I've seen "geometry" used to refer to the number of tracks per
cylinder, but never for the length field of the count. I guess it
makes sense. But note that the length filed is 16 bits unsigned, so
it's not the source oif the access method limit.
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