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Offline Framiga

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Re: New harddrive...partition problem
« on: July 08, 2004, 11:23:43 AM »
Hi doctorq

have you tryed, as suggested by Thomas, to type manually the "real" values? (the one on the HD homepage specifications)

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Re: New harddrive...partition problem
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2004, 12:30:10 PM »

mhh . . .are you speaking about this Specification page?

http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/ata/st3160023a.html

If yes . . .where have you found those value?

ST3160023A Configuration and Specifications

Cylinders: 1023
Heads: 256
Sectors: 63

SECTOR PER DRIVE (LBA MODE) 312,581,808


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Re: New harddrive...partition problem
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2004, 12:57:01 PM »
so to have ~160GB you should type:

Cyl 16383
Heads 16
Blocks per tracks 63
Blocks per cylinder  20480

Total blocks= 335,523,840



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