question - cylinder/heads/sectors/track/blocks

Jonas Heyman jonas at lkbpyr.UUCP
Fri Sep 15 05:10:18 AEST 1989


Hello,

I was wondering how unix disks works,
how does a disk look like when it has:

		823 cyl
		19 heads
		9 sectors

Could anybody tell me how all this fits together: cylinder,heads,sectors,
							block,track.
And explain each of them separate.

Sincerely Jonas

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  jonas at lkbpyr.lkb.se 



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