[ale] ATTN ! Jerry Yu Re: LILO warning; device 0x0302 > 1023 cyls, huh ?

[jjj863 at gmail.com (Jerry Yu)]

top portion of your 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' (units = cylinders of **** x **** =
**** bytes ) should tell you how many bytes a cylinder equates to.


On 12/9/06, Brian Pitts <bpitts at learnlink.emory.edu> wrote:
>
>
> > How are MBs translated into cyls  ?
> megabyte = (bytes per track * number of heads * cylinder number) / (1024
> * 1024)
>
>
> You can get the necessary information from hdparm.
>
> -Brian
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