Page 1 of 1

How does CHS work?

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 3:06 pm
by Sean
I'm knew to disk storage. Could someone explain to me what cylinders. heads, sectors, and tracks are, and perhaps what they do? Thanks a lot! :)

Re:How does CHS work?

Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2003 8:07 pm
by Curufir
Ok, I admit I had to do 2 searches because I couldn't remember the thread, but was it really so hard? :)

Schol-R-Lea gave a really good explanation in this thread:

http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=2494

Hope that helps.

Re:How does CHS work?

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 6:10 pm
by K.J.
Also check out this site:
http://ata-atapi.com/hiw.htm

TONS of very good info on disk drive interfacing, including CHS, LBA, etc.

K.J.

Re:How does CHS work?

Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 8:05 pm
by Sean
Thanks a lot. The links were really usefull!