Re: A new Drive

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Makes ne feel better.

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
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> tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost (Todd Gruhn) writes:
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> >Cylinders -- how is that done?  Because there is no tracks etc...
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> A fake geometry is used. Commonly by taking 63 * 255 sectors
> for a 'cylinder', because that's the maximum the original HDD
> interface could handle.
>
> Geometry information is mostly ignored nowadays, even for HDDs.
>