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Cylinder-head-sector disk addressing: addressable range, direct use, compatibility issues and conversion between coordinate systems.

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Default (as opposed to physical) read/write heads - what are they?

Some older computers used to identify 512-byte sectors by specifying a combination of a head number, sector number, and cylinder number. For historical reasons, the head number was often limited to t …
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