[CALUG] Fedora upgrade .... CALUG Digest, Vol 54, Issue 14

[Bryan J Smith]

Correction, 32/128 would be 2MiB (for 512b).  Sigh, bad math day.



----- Original Message ----
From: Bryan J Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org>
Sent: Tue, June 21, 2011 8:08:46 PM

For backward compatibility, max sectors is 63, heads is 255, in CHS.  So 32/128 
would be 4MiB, not 8MiB, cylinders (and MiB, not GiB).  The maximum 63/255 is 
just under 8MiB, not a perfect boundary.  Many people are using 32/64 for 1MiB, 
although beware of translations that show up.