Hard drive spec change

shmuel siegel fedora at shmuelhome.mine.nu
Thu Mar 18 21:53:15 UTC 2010


On 3/18/2010 9:47 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> The default pseudo-geometry will still be 63 sectors/track unless you
> change it, and by default a partition's start-of-data is forced to the
> beginning of a track.  Making the sectors larger doesn't change that.
>    
Warning: this question is asked without any knowledge about the subject.
Does it really make sense that the number of sectors/track is 
independent of the size of a sector?




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