On 12/09/2015 02:14 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
I thought the first valid sector on an IDE disk was sector 1, CHS 0:0:1?
Yes; it's only 0 in LBA mode.If you'd like, I can jump in here, having done a bunch of IDE software back in the bad old days.
Anyone remember the glitches in the IDENTIFY command, where Maxtor got the word order swapped around on their 60MB drives, so that the total sector count was insanely (for that time anyway) high?
--Chuck
