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Large Disk HOWTO

Andries Brouwer, aeb@cwi.nl

v2.2j, 25 November 1999


All about disk geometry and the 1024 cylinder limit for disks.

For the most recent version of this text, see www.win.tue.nl.

1. The problem

2. Summary

3. Units and Sizes

4. Disk Access

5. Booting

6. Disk geometry, partitions and `overlap'

7. Translation and Disk Managers

8. Kernel disk translation for IDE disks

9. Consequences

10. Details

11. The Linux IDE 8 GiB limit

12. The Linux 65535 cylinder limit

13. Extended and logical partitions

14. Problem solving


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