| | CHS conversion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | CHS conversion is a conversion between the (Click link for more info and facts about geometric) geometric coordinate (cylinder/head/sector or CHS) of data on a disk's surface and the addressing system used by the disk's filesystem (linear base address or LBA). |
 | | Most modern 1.44 (A unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes) MB floppy disks have 80 cylinders (numbered 0 to 79), 2 heads (numbered 0 to 1) and 18 sectors per track (numbered 1 to 18). |
 | | This equation is used very often by operating systems such as (An operating system that is on a disk) DOS to calculate the CHS values it needs to send to the disk controller or INT13h in order to read or write data. |
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