Tracks and Cylinders
A hard disk is usually made up of multiple
Because of this arrangement, often the track location of the heads is not referred to as a track number but rather as a cylinder number. A cylinder is basically the set of all tracks that all the heads are currently located at. So if a disk had four platters, it would (normally) have eight heads, and cylinder number 720 (for example) would be made up of the set of eight tracks, one per platter surface, at track number 720. The name comes from the fact that if you mentally visualize these tracks, they form a skeletal cylinder because they are equal-sized circles stacked one on top of the other in space.
This diagram illustrates what “cylinder” means on on a hard disk. This conceptual hard disk spindle has four platters, and each platter has three tracks shown on it. The cylinder indicated would be made up of the 8 tracks (2 per surface) intersected by the dotted vertical line shown.For most practical purposes, there really isn’t much difference between tracks and cylinders–its basically a different way of thinking about the same thing. The addressing of individual sectors of the disk is traditionally done by referring to cylinders, heads and sectors (CHS). Since a cylinder is the collection of track numbers located at all of the heads of the disk, the specification “track number plus head number” is equal to “(cylinder number plus head number) plus head number”, which is thus the same as “track number plus head number”.
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