How to determine the size of cylinder?

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Date: 11/29/04

  • Next message: Jim Macklin: "Re: How to determine the size of cylinder?" 
    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
                 -----------
           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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