On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:36:58PM -0800, Brandon Dorman wrote:
> 
> [root@localhost hde]#  cat /proc/ide/ide2/hde/capacity
> 156301488
> 
> So it recognizes its a Seagate 80gb drive.  I'm thinking the numbers for
> capacity are cylinders or something?  Thank you to those following this
> thread.  

The capacity is measured in sectors.
Divide it by 2K (=2048) to get the size of your drive in Mb.

Out of curiosity (and since, I've just noticed this thread), what does
the output of "dmesg | grep hd" show you?

Emmanuel



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