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Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error.
From: |
Lennart Sorensen |
Subject: |
Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error. |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:26:08 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 03:56:27PM +0100, Grégoire Sutre wrote:
> If the standard (non-extended) INT-13h interface is used, then addressing
> is performed via CHS, and w.r.t. to the BIOS geometry (which need not be
> the same as the ATA geometry reported by the disk itself, due to potential
> address translation by the BIOS). I guess that H=255 is the from the BIOS
> geometry of the disk (as returned by the INT-13h function 08h).
Very likely.
> The geometry just says how to interpret CHS addresses, it does not imply
> any partition alignment. You can have 1MiB-aligned partitions even with
> a n/255/63 BIOS geometry.
Certainly true.
--
Len Sorensen
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., (continued)
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Lennart Sorensen, 2011/03/17
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2011/03/17
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Lennart Sorensen, 2011/03/17
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2011/03/17
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Lennart Sorensen, 2011/03/17
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Grégoire Sutre, 2011/03/18
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Lennart Sorensen, 2011/03/18
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Grégoire Sutre, 2011/03/18
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error.,
Lennart Sorensen <=
- Re: How to debug 'out of disk' error., Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2011/03/16