Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Dec 1999 18:55:50 -0500 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: over 5Gb missing from a 13.5Gb disk |
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Guest section DW wrote: .. > I can hardly imagine that the manufacturer suggests CHS=930/512/63. > Indeed, H cannot be larger than 255.
True. Perhaps the BIOS is having trouble. Many boards require a BIOS upgrade to correctly cope with 37GB drives.
> > > Why is it that -I returns the vendor > > information in BE byte pairs? > > That is what the disk returns. > > > spazz:~# hdparm -I /dev/hda > > > > /dev/hda: .. > So, I was too optimistic when I said that "-I" gave data straight > from the disk - it contains strange nonsense as well.
Yeah.. I'm not too hot over that either. The '-i' was supposed to be a boot-time snapshot of the drive identity, but in recent kernels it seems to be becoming more dynamic (in the IDE driver). What a shame.
And '-i' was supposed to be the current info, but it has been messed up somewhat. I may fix that in a new version of hdparm, sometime next century.
>This "LBA CHS" junk must go. > > Andries
Yup. I agree. -- Mark Lord Real-Time Remedies Inc. mlord@pobox.com
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