Ok, now this acct is a member. The hoops ya gotta jump through ;-)
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:37:17 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joshua Jore <moomonk@linux.hard-wired.net>
To: linux-parport@torque.net
Subject: OT: ATA Floppy geometry ... (fwd)
Oddly this hasn't appeard on the list. Perhaps it bounced ... If this is a
duplicate then just ignore it.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:44:56 GMT
From: Joshua Jore <jjore@maktoob.com>
To: linux-parport@torque.net
Cc: moomonk@electricgod.net
Subject: OT: ATA Floppy geometry ...
This is off topic for this list so let me apologize in advance. I'm poking at
the i386 bootloader code and I need to know how many heads ATA floppy devices
present to the host computer. Obviously I've got an Imation SuperDisk and
consequently I know it presents 8 heads. I'd like the same info on the Iomega
Zip 100, 250 and Sony HiFD. You can get that info by running 'hdparm -g
/dev/YOURDEVICE' and it'll report some number like 80/2/18 where the middle
number is the number of heads. I've called Iomega but the tech support there
didn't know what I was asking for. Or they seemed to expect me to reverse
engineer some binary on their web site. It was an odd conversation and I
certainly don't plan on doing that.
So... any help would be greatly appreciated.
Please respond either to the list or to moomonk@electricgod.net. electricgod is
down or I'd just mail directly from there.
Josh Jore
(Again, not speaking for my employer)
PS: I'll get to finishing off that epat.c sometime RSN.
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