From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 2 17:20:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from stage1.thirdage.com (stage1.thirdage.com [4.18.197.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8467014BE6 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:20:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jal@thirdage.com) Received: from budd ([4.18.197.220]) by stage1.thirdage.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA29136 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 17:19:44 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990402171611.00cfac20@mail.thirdage.com> X-Sender: jal@mail.thirdage.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 17:21:30 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jamie Lawrence Subject: Drive geometry for IBM Ultrastar Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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