hmm, on Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:40:52PM -0500, Nick Holland said that > It means translation is stupid, but we keep doing it. :)
it is not really the translation that got me worried (although wouldn't it be more consistent to use the n x 255 x 63 version everywhere?) but the different number of sectors.. thanks for the great explanation. > 60801 x 255 x 63 = 976768065 > 476940 x 64 x 32 = 976773120 which is actually 48 sectors shy of what > the dmesg reports. > > fdisk (and the partition system it supports) is basically cylinder > oriented, so we keep talking about cylinders, even though not only has > it all been completely bogus for the last many years, but a lot of > devices now aren't even rotating... But by nature and the way they > are handled, you can't have "fractional cylinders". -f -- a war put off is not a war avoided. -- c. heston
