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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list