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A  new ad-free, early access for Byte Size fans. Today I'm looking at disk geometry. What exactly are heads, tracks, cylinders and sectors?



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Daniel, I recall those, it was by type I recall. Like a Type 4 or a Type 9 etc! Those were the days!

The Backoffice (Andrew Armstrong)

Hopefully, you've seen my answer on your YT comment :D

Nostalgia Nerd

Great video! In old BIOSes, I remember having to manually configure the disk settings. However, I also remember the BIOS having preconfigured settings for various hard drive types. Why did they have that? Was that just for convenience, or was there a reason behind it?

Daniel L


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