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Date:      Sat, 9 Sep 2006 10:50:49 -0400
From:      Ian Graeme Hilt <ihilt@bluebottle.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        jdow <jdow@earthlink.net>
Subject:   Re: Origin of hard drive parameters
Message-ID:  <200609091050.50141.ihilt@bluebottle.com>
In-Reply-To: <034201c6d20f$d044a5a0$0225a8c0@Wednesday>
References:  <890E919AB0857D4A8A52A4AD5E0F0F6221A1C2@msc-server.msc.mcgregor-surmount.com> <945DB39F-ECC9-4872-9F5D-EC45BCD439CE@mac.com> <034201c6d20f$d044a5a0$0225a8c0@Wednesday>

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On Wednesday 06 September 2006 7:54 pm, jdow wrote:

> >> Ok. Maybe the better question is: in either case, C/H/S or LBA mode,
> >> where are these parameters stored?

> They flat out are not stored anywhere. There is a standard algorithm
> published by the VESA people, I believe, that provides the data for
> all SCSI drives and modern IDE/ATA/SATA drives.

Do you know the name of this standard or where I can get it?

Ian Graeme Hilt



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