Cylinder-head-sector

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Cylinder-head-sector (CHS) is an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive.

Except for floppy disks, CHS values no longer have a direct physical relationship to the data stored on modern storage media, but virtual CHS values are still used by many utility programs and file systems.

See also

• Hard disk drive (HDD)
• Disk sector
• CD-ROM format
• Block (data storage)
• Disk storage
• Disk formatting
• File Allocation Table
• Disk partitioning

Favorite site

• Wikipedia (en) Cylinder-head-sector
• [Recommended] WEBDIR :: Understanding the Hard Disk ¹ (GPT, Disk sector, UEFI, Partition table, CHS, LBA)

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