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From: neepc@solomon.technet.sg (Nee Pai Chee)
Subject: Re: [SCSI-disk] Using the untranslated parameters in the disklabel.
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Jan-Oliver Neumann (jan@encap.Hanse.DE) wrote:
: Hostadapter: Adaptec AHA-1542B
: Disk	   : Fujitsu M 2624F 

: BIOS: 495 Cyl * 32 Tracks/Cyl * 64 Sec/Track = 1013760 Sectors
: SCSI: 1429 Cyl * 11 Tracks/Cyl * 64 Sec/Track = 1006016 Sectors

BIOS reports the logical data while SCSI reports the physical data.
From my manual (M2624SA) 1429 Cyl and 11 +1 heads is correct.