Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 00:22:19 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Retrieving disk geometry Message-ID: <20030603001755.S68271-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
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Hi, Under FreeBSD 4.x the ioctl DIOCGDINFO could be used to retrieve the number of cylinders, heads and sectors of a drive. This could be called on /dev/ad0 for example. Under FreeBSD 5 it seems to produce "Inappropriate ioctl for device" unless you call it on an individual partition (/dev/ad0s1a for example). Is there a way around this? Thanks, Andrew
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