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CHS related limits
- The values and ranges specified in the last
slides lead to the dreaded '1024 cylinder' limit
- To maximise the addressable size with this limit,
many systems use 'translation' to maximise the
number of heads and sectors (255, 63) in order
to minimise the number of cylinders leading to
a cylinder size of 7.8 MiB, and a disksize that
is directly addressable of almost 8 GiB
- Sectors beyond the limit can't be represented by
CHS fields, and are replaced by DUMMY values