Origin of hard drive parameters
Ian Graeme Hilt
ihilt at bluebottle.com
Sat Sep 9 07:53:00 PDT 2006
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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