On 03/18/2010 04:53 PM, shmuel siegel wrote:
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?
That parameter is already totally unrelated to the physical layout of
data on the disk. It is no more invalid for a 4K sector size than it
is for a 512-byte sector size. Really, the only thing that is affected
is the amount of space that fdisk (in the default DOS Compatibility
mode) leaves between a primary or secondary partition table and the
start-of-data for the partition.
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