Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Wed, 8 Dec 1999 06:16:10 +0100


On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 05:16:17PM +0100, DAVID BALAZIC wrote:

> I thought LBA put an end to geometry nightmares !?

Optimist. Already the meaning of "LBA" itself is a mystery.
Only few people distinguish LBA as a disk access method
from LBA as a geometry translation, and the two are
entirely independent.

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