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All about disk geometry and the 1024 cylinder limit for disks.
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1. The problem
Table des matières
2. Summary
3. Units and Sizes
- 3.1 Sectorsize
- 3.2 Disksize
4. Disk Access
5. Booting
6. Disk geometry, partitions and `overlap’
7. Translation and Disk Managers
8. Kernel disk translation for IDE disks
9. Consequences
- 9.1 Computing LILO parameters
10. Details
- 10.1 IDE details – the seven geometries
- 10.2 SCSI details
11. The Linux IDE 8 GiB limit
12. The Linux 65535 cylinder limit
- 12.1 IDE problems with 34+ GB disks
13. Extended and logical partitions
14. Problem solving
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