A lot of the 255/63 default on disks stretches back to NT/Win needing to be compatible with DOS/Win, and it is still an issue today as many vendors pre-format with this H/S geometry. Again, I don't see it being addressed via the legacy BIOS approach, and only with adoption of EFI/GPT.
----- Original Message ---- From: Robert G. (Doc) Savage <[email protected]> <editorial> There are a few of us old enough to remember back to 1981 and the Boca Raton wonder -- IBM's first PC/XT. Its internals became de facto standards: the BIOS, the ISA bus, VGA video, and (for PC/AT) the CHS structure. Most of those have evolved, but some went extinct and have been replaced (e.g., the ISA bus). The CHS disk structure evolved to LBA, but the primitive 512-byte block size has not changed in 30 years. It's time for another extinction. </editorial> _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
