Makes ne feel better.
On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM Michael van Elst <mlel...@serpens.de> wrote: > > tgru...@gmail.com (Todd Gruhn) writes: > > >Cylinders -- how is that done? Because there is no tracks etc... > > A fake geometry is used. Commonly by taking 63 * 255 sectors > for a 'cylinder', because that's the maximum the original HDD > interface could handle. > > Geometry information is mostly ignored nowadays, even for HDDs. >
