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All About Disk Geometry and The 1024 Cylinder Limit For Disks.
All About Disk Geometry and The 1024 Cylinder Limit For Disks.
Large Disk mini-HOWTO
Andries Brouwer, aeb@cwi.nl
v1.0, 960626
1. The problem
Suppose you have a disk with more than 1024 cylinders. Suppose moreover that
you have an operating system that uses the BIOS. Then you have a problem,
because the usual INT13 BIOS interface to disk I/O uses a 10-bit field for the
cylinder on which the I/O is done, so that cylinders 1024 and past are
inaccessible.
Fortunately, Linux does not use the BIOS, so there is no problem.
Well, except
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