IDE driver

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Peter_Vigren

Re:IDE driver

Post by Peter_Vigren »

slacker wrote: whats the difference between logical and physical sectors? also when i tried writing the bytes 0x55 and 0xAA in a loop to the first sector i still get the bios error message which means i am not writing the bootsector(sector 1) correctly right?
The physical sectors are the real sector on the disc. So physical sector 0 is the very first sector on the disc.

Logical sectors are the sectors within a partition. So logical sector 0 is the first sector on the partition (but not the first sector on the disc).

Any clearer?
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