DOH! "Makes me feel better".
On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM Todd Gruhn <tgru...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > >
