Re: Disk geometry from /sys

From: Seewer Philippe
Date: Wed Apr 23 2008 - 02:48:20 EST


Francis Moreau wrote:
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Just out of curiosity, what does scsi use for addressing IO operations ?
I'm quoting from http://www.mossywell.com/boot-sequence/
[quote]
LBA has been around since around 1981. It is the method used to access SCSI drives. However, in the mid-1990s IDE disks finally caught up with SCSI and started to use LBA as well.
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Further Information is provided by wikipedia as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_block_addressing

Have fun!
Philippe Seewer
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