Large Disk HOWTO
Andries Brouwer,
aeb@cwi.nl
v2.2m, 15 February 2000
All about disk geometry and the 1024 cylinder limit for disks.
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