Should ask the right question in the first place!!

Colin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerome Grimbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q40 size of disk


>
> Colin Parsons makes some magical things to make me read
> } Hi.
> }
> } Look up the model on the Internet, never failed me on dozens of drives.
>
> Ok, I mean: from an SMSQ/E program ?
> Otherwise, most drives now comes with a label which states the number of
sectors...
> There is also the 'seek and destroy' approach: "requesting big cylinder
number...until
> it fails..." (and sometimes destroy the drive too!)
>
> } >
> } > Greetings,
> } >
> } > I would like to know a way to get the number of sectors of a harddisk
> } > attached to a Q40.
> } > I do not want the number of sector of the partition, but really
> } > the number of sector of the whole harddisk.
> } >
> } > Does anybody know a way for that ?
> } > (assuming that the disk is directly from the shop, with nothing yet
> } > in the sector#0)
>


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