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" From: nate at portents.com
" 
" > in the disks i know about, all the zones have the same number of
" > cylinders.  suppose you make your fs cg size this same number?  you're
" > screwed [for fs optimization], because your fs label can only assume
" > all cgs are the same size, but the zones aren't.  there's no way to
" > set sectors/track cg-by-cg, only for the whole disk.
" 
" I thought it's been well established that for many years now that drive
" geometries in modern hard drives are completely fictitious?  AFAIK the
" last time they actually meant something was back in the mid-90's.

right; at best they make up a c/h/s which approximates a fair average
of zone sizes, on scsi.  on ide they've long gone with kludges which
have their roots in pc drive controller limitations.
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