On 12/16/05, Nick Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On i386, that statement is STILL wrong, though you will be digging up > either some unusual historic hardware or some really unusual devices for > there to be an issue. Still, that's just wrong. > > On i386, it is NOT "63 sectors", it is "one (logical) track". On modern > (>500M) hard disks, one logical track is 63 sectors, but that was not > always the case, and I don't think it has to be the case now for "small" > storage devices.
This is true -- I have a 32MB USB key which reports its (fake) geometry as 'sd2: 31MB, 31 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 64000 sec total'. Funny thing is, the FAT partition on it still starts at a 63-sector offset. I suppose I could repartition it to gain an extra 16kB if I really wanted to. :-) I was about to enclose dmesg/fdisk/disklabel, but I see you have already described a similar device (also 32 sec/track) in 14.17. -Andrew
