On Wed, 12 May 1999, Guest section DW wrote:
> > So why would it report 33483/16/63 then. (Award BIOS)
> Name the disk type,
hdc: Maxtor 91728D8, 16479MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=33483/16/63, (U)DMA
> the hdparm -I output,
# /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Model=Maxtor 91728D8, FwRev=GAS54112, SerialNo=A805S1XC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=33483/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=29
Ah, you were cheated by Andre.
In the good old days `hdparm -i' gave interesting output.
These days `hdparm -i' prints not what the disk says, but
what the author of the IDE driver thought you would prefer to see.
So, `hdparm -i' is completely worthless (for geometries) these days.
That is why I asked for `hdparm -I'.
Let me predict that it will say
# /sbin/hdparm -I /dev/hdc
/dev/hdc:
Model=aMtxro9 71828D, FwRev=AG5S1421, SerialNo=8A501SCX
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=29
...
and hence is not an exception. It really tells the world
that it is 16383/16/63, entirely according to the standard.
Andries
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