RE: [cobalt-users] Cobalt raq4r hard disk replacement info..

["Phil Beynon" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Swapana Ghosh wrote:
>
>         I have asked one quesion about our cobalt
> raq4r hard disk.
> One of the disk has been corrupted , we need to
> replace..To find
> out the information about hard disk, I did
>
> cat /proc/ide/ide0/hda/{capacity,geometry,model}
>
> The result is coming as follows:
>
> 78165360
> physical     77545/16/63
> logical      77545/16/63
> ST340810A
>
> Should i go for buying 20gb hard disk for the
> replacement?
>
> Going trough the google , came to know that cobalt
> raq4r has
> Dual 20GB Ultra ATA Hard Drives....

>We happen to use/sell ST340810A,
>and it is a 40GB hard drive.
>It is NOT a 20GB hard drive.
>
>Gerald
>

If you know the parameters of a drive you can always check the size by
multiplying all the numbers in the geometry together then x 512 (number of
bytes per sector). This gives you the exact number of bytes available on the
drive, in this case 40,020,664,320 this is regardless of if the drive is in
translation mode - i.e it doesn't really have 16 heads!

Phil



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