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All About Disk Geometry And The 1024 Cylinder Limit For Disks.
Part one of term paper
Large Disk mini-HOWTO
Andries Brouwer, aeb@cwi.nl
v1.0, 960626
1. The problem
Suppose you have a disk with more than 1024 cylinders. Suppose moreover that
you have an operating system that uses the BIOS. Then you have a problem,
because the usual INT13 BIOS interface to disk I/O uses a 10-bit field for the
cylinder on which the I/O is ...
Part two of term paper
... for all operating systems that use one disk to agree on
where the partitions are.In other words, if you use both Linux and, say, DOS on
one disk, then both must interpret the partition table in the same way.This has
some consequences for the Linux kernel and for fdisk.
Below a rather detailed description of all relevant details.Note that I used
kernel version 2.0.8 source as a reference.Other versions may differ a bit.
2.Booting
When the system is booted, the BIOS reads sector 0 (known as the MB ...
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