On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 11:43:10PM +0200, Federico Lupi wrote:
> Thanks a lot for the answer (as usual :-)
> 
> If I understand correctly, the BIOS uses yet another "fake" geometry

Yes.

> which comes close to the total number of sectors but is not exact.  So,
> as long as I stick to the BIOS geometry (cylinders: 524 heads: 128
> sectors/track: 63 => 4225536 sectors) in partitioning everything will
> be ok, although some sectors (4226725-4225536=1189 sectors= 594 KB)
> will remain unused.

Yes, that's it.

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