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Register Addresses and Functions
Chapter 6
Technical Reference Manual
Page 33
Addressing the Data
There are two methods of addressing the sectors on the disk drive.
Cylinder-head-sector (CHS) mode
The first method, which is the traditional approach, uses Cylinder-Head-Sector
(CHS) addressing. Most disk drives today exceed the number of cylinders limit
of DOS or use zone recording (different number of sectors per track in each
zone) so the parameters reported by the drive in the Identify Device command
are logical translations done by the drive. Logical translation within the drive
limits DOS to 528 MB because of the combined limitations of DOS and the
traditional definition of the IDE registers. BIOS and Device Drivers may
provide another layer of translation to map the DOS accessible address space to
the IDE register accessible address space.
Some non-DOS operating systems utilize additional bits in the Cylinder High
register to go beyond the DOS limit.
Logical Block Addressing (LBA) Mode
The second method uses Logical Block Addressing (LBA), which is common to
SCSI. This method re-defines the content of the Task File registers, which are
described later in this chapter. This drive operates with either CHS or LBA
addressing by responding to the switch in the Device/Head register. The
registers affected by LBA mode are the Sector Number, Cylinder Low,
Cylinder High, and Device/Head. The use of these registers allows a 28-bit
address space capable of handling up to 128GB of data.
In LBA mode, the sectors on the disk are linearly mapped with the first logical
block (LBA 0) defined as cylinder 0, Head 0, Sector 1. The subsequent logical
blocks are defined by the formula:
LBA
= [(cylinder * no. of heads + heads ) * sectors/track] + (sector - 1)
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