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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HARDWARE: geometry FAQ?
Date: 5 Nov 1995 22:30:42 +0100
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Roy Lovejoy <roy@adeptsolutions.com> wrote:

>Q2: If not, does anyone know the geometry for a CONNER 5xx meg SCSI drive?
>(model CFA540S)

Most likely your kernel.  Boot with -v.

(You don't really want to know the actual geometry, only what your
BIOS thinks the geometry were.  You would have a hard time to enter
all the different geometry zones of your hard disk. :)
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)