Re: 1024 cylinder

[Thorsten Glaser <tygs@netcologne.de>]

begin  electrogrammati illius Shane J Pearson

>Hi guys,
>
>On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 02:28  AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
>>> has 16
>>> heads.
>>
>> It's the BIOS limitation.
>
>Actually, the 16 head limit was imposed by the IDE interface, the BIOS

I know.

>at that time allowed 255 heads!

Yup, I was talking about the limitation itself...

>> Many, but not all, BIOSen support LBA conversion and thus 255 heads.
>
>I was of the belief that LBA did not use cyls, heads and sectors, but
>genuine block addresses? In the IDE World this is limited to 28 bits
>and thus 2^28*512=128GB.

Correct.

-Thorsten
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