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From: Vilmos Soti <vilmos@soti.ca>
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Subject: Re: MSDOS before cyl 1024
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 03:00:51 -0800
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vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com writes:

> What is this about MSDOS partition must be before cylinder 1024?

Old BIOS constraint. Long ago, the BIOS encoded the number of heads,
cylinders, and sectors in only a few bytes. The cylinders were encoded
in 10 bits.

This is really old stuff -- maybe 40 year old stuff.

> How do you know on GParted?

I am surprised that this pops up in 2023.

Vilmos