>> I keep LBA disabled, for I partitioned the HD with
>> 4-sector clusters.
>
> Clusters and LBA have nothing directly in common. Partitions are made up
> only
> of sectors. It's only subsequent formatting that gives birth to logical
> clusters, after the act of partitioning is over. LBA is about
On 2010/10/03 23:18 (GMT-0200) jassenna composed:
> I mean the BIOS in the machine I am using (Award,
> dated 12/08/1994) has LBA support, with
> 1 logical block= 8 sectors. This value seems hardcoded.
Back in 1994 the methodology and terminology for dealing with HDs >512M was
nowhere close to
At 06:18 PM 10/3/2010, jassen...@itelefonica\.com\.br wrote:
> I mean the BIOS in the machine I am using (Award,
>dated 12/08/1994) has LBA support, with
>1 logical block= 8 sectors. This value seems hardcoded.
Where do you get this info from? It just doesn't make any sense, even
the old 28bit
Christian Masloch said:
> The BIOS doesn't know anything about cluster sizes.
> Maybe you mean sector sizes? Almost all floppy and
> hard disks have a sector size of 512 byte. Expect
> problems with hardware, firmware and/or software
> if that is not the case.
I mean the BIOS in the machine
