Re: partition sizes on flash drive


"Eric Gisin" <gisin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The default CHS geometry for 2K/XP is heads=255 sectors=63, or 8MB per
cylinder.

That doesn't appear to be the case here. W2K partitioning gives
1,019,625,472 bytes. Sector size = 512 bytes. 1,019,625,472 / 512 =
1,991,456 sectors, which is not evenly divisible by 63 or 255.

All 3 partition sizes - the others being 2,001,600 and 2,006,464 512-byte
sectors - are divisible by 32. If all are 32 heads then CHS geometry doesn't
explain the size differences.

thx,
nf


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