On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:50:16 +0100, dennis@home
wrote:

On 24/10/2016 12:05, T i m wrote:



Just as we see with HDD geometry translation (something I see every
time I boot into Linux on my other PC).

You don't see HDD geometry translation with linux as it doesn't know
what the actual hardware does.

I do see a message suggesting such flash up as I boot Linux?

"Initialize variable space...
Starting cmain() ...
!! number of heads for drive 80 restored from 255 to 254.
!! sectors-per-track for drive 80 restored from 63 to 19."

May well be to do with how I dual boot between Linux and Windows, just
that Windows seems to start cleanly?

Unless you have a very old system where
the heads/sectors/tracks actually were physical. But I doubt it as you
probably have more than ~30M bytes on a disk.

It's a low power Intel board and a 500G SATA drive if I remember
rightly.

Its quite interesting to see a system optimising where its putting files
when it doesn't know where the files are actually being put on the disk.

Like defrag you mean?

Cheers, T i m