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**Arno Wagner** · June 29th 07, 03:38 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage

Previously wrote:
I am still not clear on how the hdd cam work with the 2 different
configurations. They give different numbers of total sectors...

The configuration is not in the HDD. It is a "fiction" the BIOS
makes up from what the HDD tells it. The readon is that HDDs
can have much more cylinders/heads.sectors than old BIOSes could
handle. Ubnfortunately, before LBA there was no standard way to do
this translation.

Arno