Origin of hard drive parameters

[Ian Graeme Hilt]

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