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All About Disk Geometry And The 1024 Cylinder Limit For Disks.
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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-b ....
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....ontained in the first 1024 cylinders of a disk that the BIOS
can access - probably this means the first or second disk.
Another point is that the boot loader and the BIOS must agree as to the disk
geometry.It may help to give LILO the `linear' option. More details below.
3.Disk geometry and partitions
If you have several operating systems on your disks, then each uses one or more
disk partitions.A disagreement on where these partitions are may have
catastrophic consequences.
The MBR contains.... |
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