[mythtv-users] OT: best way to connect IDE harddrives and dvd

[Matt Mossholder]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 13:34 -0400, Ryan Steffes wrote:
> 
>         
>                 This is actually untrue. Lower numbered LBA sectors
>         will always be at
>         the edge of the disk, unless they have been remapped, as you
>         have
>         mentioned in point 3. You may not be able to say what exact
>         cylinders on
>         the disk the partition will land on, but you can have things
>         be in the
>         generally correct location ( i.e. start, middle, end)
>         
> 
>  
> How does this factor in drives with multiple platters?
> 
> Ryan
> 

My understanding is that it would go something like this:

sector 1 / platter 1 = LBA 1
sector 1 / platter 2 = LBA 2
sector 2 / platter 1 = LBA 3
sector 2 / platter 2 = LBA 4 


... and on down the line. Vertical movement first, then around the edge,
then towards the center.

	--Matt