- HDD Utility
- Posted by MRossi on April 18th, 2006
I'm thinking this may be a stupid question, but here it goes. Is there a
tool out there that will tell you the cyl. heads and sectors of the HDD if
you only have the size of the HDD. So for example, if I have a 300GB SATA
HDD, can I find out the BIOS info with some sort of formula?
- Posted by DL on April 18th, 2006
Is there some reason you cannot set bios hd for auto detect?
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- Posted by MRossi on April 18th, 2006
I can, but I'm just asking to see if there is such a tool/fomula out there,
for the just in case purposes. I also, understand that the manufacture of
the HDD should have this, but again, just in case they do not. If there is
no such tool/formula then maybe someone should make one. I think it'll be
useful, but who knows....
"DL" wrote:
- Posted by Eric P. on April 19th, 2006
MRossi wrote:
diskutils (often Dos programs like ATAPROBE) to read 512 bytes of
information from the device.
Among this the total number of sectors that is used instead nowadays and
a default CHS you can use to read the beginning of a disk.
(On outer tracks the number of sectors is higher than on the smaller
inner tracks.)
ataprobe v1.0 (c)1995,96 by PAP den Haan
location : primary master
identify sector :
0: 045a config = Ata FixedDevice
1: 3fff cylinders = 16383
2: 37c8 (reserved)
3: 0010 heads = 16
4: 0000 0000
(vendor specific)
6: 003f sectors/track = 63
7: 0000 0000 0000
(vendor specific)
10: 2020 2020 2020 564e 4334 3032 4134 4348 594a 3541
serial number = VNC402A4CHYJ5A
20: 0003 (vendor specific)
21: 0e8f buffer size = 1863 KB [obsoleted by ATA-2]
22: 0034 ecc bytes = 52
23: 5641 344f 4135 3241
firmware rev = VA4OA52A
27: 4943 3335 4c30 3830 4156 5641 3037 2d30 2020 2020
2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
model number = IC35L080AVVA07-0
47: 8010 r/w multiple = 16 sectors/block max
etc. etc.
