Subject: Re: Huge (> 1TB) disk
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org, netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/14/2002 00:41:08
> Haven't seen a disk where you had any idea what a "track" actually
> was in years.  I suppose "Lord Isildur" doesn't know about ZBR.

> For reference, on modern drives, "geometry" is entirely a fiction.

You mean you haven't had the disk tell you where notch boundaries are?
Geometry is not _entirely_ a fiction.  Only the notion that there
exists a single geometry describing the entire drive is a fiction.

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