Re: HD partition not ending on a cylinder boundary

On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:07:18 +0000, Harold Stevens rearranged some
electrons to say:



Disk /dev/hda: 4375 MB, 4375009280 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track,
565 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes


Apparently, hda1 is this "mystery" partition where Compaq decided to
keep a lot (all?) of their "extended" BIOS functions.

Maybe, but if it's really 7 cylinders, it's > 40MB.

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