Benefits from computing physical IDE disk geometry?
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You couldn't even tell where such boundaries exist, or what the real block size of the underlying media is. Cyliners are all different sizes.
Not even if you do timing tests? I know people have done tests that
pinpoint where the xfer rate changes, for example. I'm sure it wouldn't be easy, but I bet you could get some useful information. And at the very least, remapped sectors should be easy to spot...
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