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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q) Seagate geometry
Date: 14 Sep 1995 12:22:55 +0200
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ken <ken@tyd1.tydfam.iijnet.or.jp> wrote:
> Could anyone give me a geometry information (cyl,hd,sec)
>of Seagate ST12550N?
> I tried to find it on www.seagate.com, but maybe it is
>obsoleted - there was no ST12550N. FreeBSD 2.1.0-950726
>floppy complains that it cannot get correct geometry.
You don't need the disk geometry, you need the geometry your BIOS
assumes the disk were. For Adaptec, this is N * 32 * 64, with N being
the actual number of full megabytes (2^20 bytes) the disk has.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)