New answers tagged hard-disk
3
votes
Does DOS require partitions to be aligned at a cylinder boundary?
The Large Disk HOWTO is correct. MS-DOS requires CHS EBRs (type ID 5) – but only CHS EBRs – to be cylinder-aligned.
This can be discovered by studying internal DOS data structures, especially the one ...
- 25k
0
votes
Did any PC disk defragmentor optimize cylinder position?
From what I remember, defragmenters didn’t care about disk geometry, which makes sense. Disk geometry is low-level, specific to a given disk, and either hardcoded into the disk controller or handled ...
- 205
Top 50 recent answers are included