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echo: dads
to: Maurice Kinal
from: Andy Ball
date: 2007-04-13 16:24:56
subject: fdisk

Hello Maurice,

  MK> That is rather strange then since I never used a bios function
    > ever and yet the alterations made by committing a fdisk session
    > to the mbr seems to be correct

Yes, but what you're writing to the MBR is a partition map and perhaps a
boot sector.  Nothing to do with a disk's geometry (theoretical number of
cylinders, heads and sectors per track).

- Andy Ball

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