All About Disk Geometry and The 1024 Cylinder Limit For Disks. 1. The problem Suppose you have a disk with more than 1024 cylinders. Suppose moreover that you have an operating system that uses the BIOS. Then you have a problem, because the usual INT13 BIOS interface to disk I/O uses a 10-bit field for the cylinder on which the I/O is done, so that cylinders 1024 and past are inaccessible. Fortunately, Linux does not use the BIOS, so there is no problem. Well, except for two things: (1) When you boot your system, Linux isn't running yet and cannot save you from BIOS problems....

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