Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp, who wrote on Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:56:30AM +0000 .. > In message <[email protected]>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" writes: > > >There is another opinion: > >http://www.boot-us.com/gloss02.htm > > > >"There is the convention that partitions should always start and end on *= > >cylinder boundaries*." > > It is actually more weird than that: > > The rule is that the starting or ending head of one of the four > slices represent the number of heads used to access the drive, and > ditto for sectors. > > This "requirement" dates back to "smart" BIOS'es and ST-506 drives > which couldn't ask the drive for its geometry.
WD1003 anyone? Wilko _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
