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

Brian Pitts bpitts at learnlink.emory.edu
Sat Dec 9 17:17:09 EST 2006


> 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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