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> From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: |
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> > Is there really any need for the "cylinder" these days? |
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> No, not as I understand it. |
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> There may be some bits of software that suggest they can use them, but |
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> I think with the advent of LBA directly addressing CHS is now retired |
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> with only sector addressing being important due to the way the data is |
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> physically placed on the drive. Who cares what cylinder it's on, and |
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> who cares which head is getting the data? It doesn't matter to us |
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> users... |
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True user's don't care. However, Boot Loader writers (e.g. grub) need to care about it since LBA is not quite available right away - you have to focus on other things until you can load the rest of the boot loader. |
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So it's not 100% dead, but yes - most things no longer need to care about it. |
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Ben |
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