hmm, on Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:40:52PM -0500, Nick Holland said that
> > the cylinders, heads, sectors and the number of total sectors do not match.
> > what does this mean?
>
> It means translation is stupid, but we keep doing it. :)
ok, now just to make things more interesting, i have found a disk
where fdisk and dmesg output matches, but some other stuff doesn't...
umass0 at uhub3 port 4 configuration 1 interface 0
umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.02, addr 2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets
sd0 at scsibus1 targ 1 lun 0: <WD, 1600BEVExternal, 1.02> SCSI0 0/direct fixed
sd0: 152627MB, 152627 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 312581808 sec total
amaaq> fdisk sd0
fdisk: sysctl(machdep.bios.diskinfo): Device not configured
Disk: sd0 geometry: 152627/64/32 [312581808 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: 0C 0 1 32 - 76316 38 1 [ 63: 156296322 ] Win95 FAT32L
1: 83 76316 38 2 - 152625 22 1 [ 156296385: 156280320 ] Linux files*
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
but
152627 * 64 * 32 = 312580096 and not 312581808
also according to windows the geometry is 19457/255/63
19457 * 255 * 63 = 312576705
312581808 - 312576705 = 5103, that's the same amount of sectors
i can't use with the 500G disk.
so what's up with these dick measurements?
-f
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