Help!!! I need to find the formula for calculating the amount of
cylinders on a hard disk. Could someone please e-mail me the formula?
Thanks in advance.
-Chris
by Christopher B Jess » Wed, 10 Apr 1996 04:00:00
-Chris
by Edvard Majaka » Fri, 12 Apr 1996 04:00:00
Uhh.. this ain't any e-mail, but there ain't any formula for yourQuote:>Help!!! I need to find the formula for calculating the amount of
>cylinders on a hard disk. Could someone please e-mail me the formula?
>Thanks in advance.
Capasity/512*HS
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by Dave Beem » Thu, 18 Apr 1996 04:00:00
I've got a related question. I repartitioned a 1.7 GB micropolis drive
from a SUN to use under Linux, and fdisk reported a radically different
number of C,H, and S (842,128,32) from the numbers which were used on the
SUN (2394,15,96). Both sets of numbers give about the same capacity
and fdisk didn't complain about the need to set these by hand from the
extra functions menu, so I went ahead and used these apparently bogus
numbers. As far as I can tell, everything works OK, but I wonder ....
Why does this work? Am I in for trouble later on?
1. disk cylinders and alternate cylinders?
In Ultrix 4.3's /usr/include/sys/devio.h, I read:
: dev_size; /* number of blocks in the user area (#pc)*/
: ntracks; /* number of tracks per cylinder (#nt) */
: nsectors; /* number of sectors per track (#ns) */
: ncylinders; /* total number of cylinders (#nc) */
: attributes; /* Device attributes; see defs below */
However, on some other operating systems like DEC OSF/1 1.3 or SunOS 4.1.3,
I see a reference to "alternative cylinders" when getting the disk geomery
info via DEVGETGEOM ioctl(). What is an "alternate cylinder" and more
importantly for me, do you include the alternate cylinders in the total
number of cylinders or not?
To be even more pratical, what if I know the recommended number of cylinders
and alternate cylinders for, say, a "Quantum PD 1050" drive from a SunOS
/etc/format.dat file which includes cylinders and alternate cylinder
numbers. If I want to create an /etc/disktab entry for it under Ultrix, do I
use the number of cylinders or the cylinders+altcylinders number?
Thanks for any help. Beg, plead, whimper.
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