How to determine the size of cylinder?
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Date: 11/29/04
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Date: 28 Nov 2004 20:28:13 -0800
Dear experts,
I have a good technical question for you.
>From the newsgroups:
"From: Gary Boswell (gboswell@dormnet.stu1.uconn.edu)
Subject: Hard Drive > 500 mb FAQ
Back in ancient times computers had a limitation in the BIOS of the following:
cylinders = 1024
heads = 16
sectors = 63
* 512
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or 528,482,304 bytes
Due to these limitations the maximum size of a hard drive was:
528 chkdisk mb
503 CMOS mb"
My question is:
- for a given hard drive, how can I tell the size of the cylinder?
In either Redhat, or Windows XP?
Thanks
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