The philosophy described above also applies to the disk generic IOCtl commands. For any logical block device of an associated extended volume, physical cylinder, head, and sector I/O is mapped to within the extended volume - Cylinder 0, Head 0, Sector 1 is mapped to the extended boot record. An error condition is generated for any attempt to do C,H,S I/O beyond the size of the extended volume in question.


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