From: BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Who believes in cylinders?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:23:57 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <595840.35352.qm@web65414.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1002261731i1f64df2di7a87e670db5bbdd8@mail.gmail.com>
----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote:
> > Is there really any need for the "cylinder" these days?
> No, not as I understand it.
> There may be some bits of software that suggest they can use them, but
> I think with the advent of LBA directly addressing CHS is now retired
> with only sector addressing being important due to the way the data is
> physically placed on the drive. Who cares what cylinder it's on, and
> who cares which head is getting the data? It doesn't matter to us
> users...
True user's don't care. However, Boot Loader writers (e.g. grub) need to care about it since LBA is not quite available right away - you have to focus on other things until you can load the rest of the boot loader.
So it's not 100% dead, but yes - most things no longer need to care about it.
Ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-27 2:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-27 0:09 [gentoo-user] Who believes in cylinders? walt
2010-02-27 0:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2010-02-27 1:31 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-27 2:23 ` BRM [this message]
2010-02-27 16:53 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-02-27 18:04 ` Mark Knecht
2010-02-27 18:17 ` BRM
2010-02-27 18:20 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2010-02-28 11:13 ` Mick
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