Hard drive spec change

[Till Maas]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 11:53:15PM +0200, 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?

The sectors/track are afaik totally non interesting nowadays and the F13
fdisk behaves quite different if the non dos compatibility mode is used.
Then it tries to be Windows compatible afaics, e.g. forcing the
beginning of the first partition at a 1MiB offset from the beginning of
the drive. For pure (modern) linux systems the best tool seems to be for
me bdisk, which uses modern GPT partition tables, that do not care about
tracks or cylinders.

Regards
Till
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