Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 17:21:30 -0800 From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@thirdage.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Drive geometry for IBM Ultrastar Message-ID: <4.1.19990402171611.00cfac20@mail.thirdage.com>
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Hi - This isn't strictly on charter, so I hope people don't mind. I bought 2 IBM drives, one the DRVS-18V and the other the DRVS-9V, 18 and 9 gig 10,000 RPM drives. They didn't come with geometry info, and I can't find it anywhere. I can find that there are 7065 cylinders, and 10 platters, 20 heads on the 18G disk, and 5/10 on the 9. The sector size is configurable, 512-732 bytes. What I can't find it the number of tracks, or how many sectors per track (assuming, say, 512 byte sectors). Does anyone know a way to derive this information? Or does anyone have these drives and know? I broke down and called IBM tech support, and they don't seem to know either, and just promised a call back which never came. Thanks. -j To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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