From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 24 16: 6:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6984A37B405 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:06:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swheeler@mce.ab.ca) Received: from daddys ([24.71.228.6]) by femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with SMTP id <20010824230618.QMTH19391.femail13.sdc1.sfba.home.com@daddys> for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:06:18 -0700 Message-ID: <005e01c12cf1$2cb53c60$0d00a8c0@mshome.net> From: "Shannon Wheeler" To: References: <20010824151208.R27435-100000@we-66-27-250-19.we.mediaone.net> Subject: Re: What's the magic formula for figuring size of disk with C/H/S info? Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:04:48 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG C x H x S x 512 = # of bytes divide by 1024 to get K divide by 1024 again to get M divide by 1024 again to get G 6218*16*63*512=around 3G ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joey Garcia" To: Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 4:12 PM Subject: What's the magic formula for figuring size of disk with C/H/S info? > > Hey all, > > In case the subject wasn't clear enough. I have a hardrive laying around > that I'm thinking of adding to my FreeBSD system because I need some more > space. I'm not sure the size of this drive, but the label says 6218 > cylinders, 16 heads, and 63 sectors. I know there's a magic formula for > figuring out the size of the disk using that information, but I'm not sure > what it is or where to find it. And that's why I'm aksing for your > friendly help. :) Thanks in advance for the information. > > Joey > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message