Multiply them together C * H * S * kilobytes per sector sector size is normally 512 bytes/sector. caffeine:~# fdisk /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1048 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes caffeine:~# bc 255*63*1048*.5 8418060.0 <-- 8ish Gb At 11:20 PM 10/19/00 +0200, you wrote:
How can one calculate the amount of space a hard disk provides given only the disk's CHS values?
-- Criggie