-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2013-04-04 at 17:43 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
Per hdparm the drive is reporting: Logical max current cylinders 16383 16383 heads 16 16 sectors/track 63 63
It obviously does not have 16 heads, because that's something you can see instantly if you open up a disk. The manufacturer specs say the actual number of platers the disc has (some disks may have a side of a plater unused: that's how they change disk sizes for models of the same series). I have seen 1 or 2, perhaps 4. But 8 in a an enclosure 1 inch thick, impossible. So those numbers above are made up, as you say. If the head count is false, so are the rest. They are just made up so that the multiplication gets the right number of sectors, for obsolete software that require them. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFeO+EACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WAxgCbBXeX9rG7nyCoNJw4JRi1AF0s 0hEAnRkqd3Y/Xaqa7YAdT4WF56QuMrvf =mdtq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org