[syslinux] tracks=heads*sectors?

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/17/2010 04:46 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I always thought that tracks=heads*cylinders or so, but now
> 
> commit 174d92a09a250c64451d8340219a89593172b056
> [...]    
>     Add a field for the number of tracks (number of heads*sectors).
> 
> Heads*sectors would instead be the number of sectors per cylinder as I
> understand it.  How does this fit together?

Ah yes, I got the labelling backwards.  Tracks is heads*cylinders.

	-hpa


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