Re: Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry?

Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-14T02:21:35Z

> You couldn't even tell where such boundaries exist, or what the real
> block size of the underlying media is. Cyliners are all different sizes.

Not even if you do timing tests? I know people have done tests that
pinpoint where the xfer rate changes, for example. I'm sure it
wouldn't be easy, but I bet you could get some useful information.
And at the very least, remapped sectors should be easy to spot...

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