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

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Hard coded hard drive BIOS geometries

Most old BIOSes on PCs and compatibles provided means to enter hard drive geometries (cylinder/head/sector as well as more esoteric things like write precomp) when configuring the machine. Some (AMI …
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