On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 10:46:16AM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote:
>>>>>> "Rajesh" == Rajesh Fowkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Rajesh> Now that brings this question ? What is the difference
> Rajesh> between Win95 FAT32 and Win95 FAT32 (LBA) ?
>
>LBA is Logical Block Addressing. IIRC, with LBA, whatever be the disk
>geometry, it is accessible as a disk with 255 heads (127 for my
>ex-laptop), and 63 sectors. Only the number of cylinders vary
>according to the disk capacity. For example, on a disk I have access
>to, the physical structure is (from /proc/ide/hda/geometry)
>
>physical 16383/16/63
>logical 2490/255/63
>
>These two sets of numbers are different because of LBA.
>
>Maybe someone else will take over from here? What are the advantages
>of LBA? Why do Win9x insist on LBA? What about linux? Are the numbers
>255 and 63 counted from 0 (making the actual numbers 256 and 64)?
>
Thanks binand for the explanation. The question came to my mind because
win95 FAT partition and extended partition created by cfdisk gave problems
in mounting one of the fa32 extended partitions. Converting these
partitions to Win95 FAT (LBA) solved the problem.
Warm Regards
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Rajesh Fowkar
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