From: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 48-bit Drives Incorrectly reporting 255 Heads?
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:38:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030821053824.GA21451@pegasys.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88A7BC80FA2797498AF6D865CAD3EA43180E95@iceman.altiris.com>
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 01:31:08PM -0600, John Riggs wrote:
> With the 2.4.20 kernel, I have a 40GB disk with 240 heads, with 48-bit
I don't beleive that. 240 heads, baloney!
Unless it is a very old drive it probably has 4 or 5 heads.
Quite likely it has only 2 or 3.
A 240 head drive would have to have multiple heads per
surface or the stack of disks on the spindle would be about
5 feet tall.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-21 5:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-20 19:31 John Riggs
2003-08-20 19:47 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-08-20 20:00 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-08-21 5:38 ` jw schultz [this message]
2003-08-21 6:26 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-08-21 7:41 ` Alan Cox
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