On Iau, 2003-07-17 at 15:37, Walt H wrote:
> On the second drive, it's like this:
> capacity = 80418240, head=255, sect = 63
> lba = capacity / (head * sect) = 5005 int or 5005.80 float
> lba = lba * (head * sect) = 80405325 int or 80418240.01 float
> lba = lba - sect = 80405262 int or 80418177 float
Would fixed point solve this. Start from capacity <<= 16 and then
do the maths. That would put lba in 65536ths of a sector which
should have the same result as your float maths
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