math queston

linuxhelp · 10-18-2002, 07:53 AM

my question is in linux (red hat) when i do a sfdisk -g on my hard drive i get :4865 cyclinders 255heads, 63 sectors. how the heads are so high not 16 like in does. i have to do the math to get start and stop sectors and trying to find out how many cyclinders will a partion hold. how do you do the math?

vladkrack · 12-16-2002, 04:47 PM

Is heads x sectors x 512 bytes = equal to size of the cylinder

gigsvoo · 12-17-2002, 04:16 AM

Yeah... not something like E= mc^

MasterC · 12-17-2002, 02:36 PM

You guys are true geeks.

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