Re: How to determine the size of cylinder?

From: Mark A. Odell (odellmark_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: 30 Nov 2004 13:57:14 GMT

Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@sympatico.ca> wrote in
news:BjRqd.12106$Ad3.762097@news20.bellglobal.com:

> [snip]
>> - for a given hard drive, how can I tell the size of the cylinder?
[snip]
> Or, you can examine the contents of /proc/ide/<drive_id>/geometry
>
> ~ $ cat /proc/ide/hda/geometry
> physical 39703/16/63

This is bogus, of course, and has nothing to do with the physical number
of cylinders, heads, or or sectors on the disk. Only the vendor's data
*** will give you the physical information. 

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