22 Jan
2003
22 Jan
'03
10:34
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 10:50:15AM +0000, Phil Driscoll wrote:
Both Gary and Mark have mentioned that the raw copy of a disk is best only used when the disks have identical geometry. I don't know the first thing about how the kernel drivers actually access the drives, but surely on a modern machine it's no longer by cylinder head sector any more? Isn't LBA the norm these days - and if that's the case, surely - for once :) - size matters, and not geometry.
LBA still pretends to use a C/H/S geometry, but not every drive or every BIOS interprets LBA in the same way. -- Mark Evans St. Peter's CofE High School Phone: +44 1392 204764 X109 Fax: +44 1392 204763