scsicam_bios_param9
Determine geometry of a disk in cylinders/heads/sectors.
Arguments
bdev
which device
capacity
size of the disk in sectors
ip
return value: ip[0]=heads, ip[1]=sectors, ip[2]=cylinders
Overview
determine the BIOS mapping/geometry used for a drive in a SCSI-CAM system, storing the results in ip as required by the HDIO_GETGEO ioctl.
Return
-1 on failure, 0 on success.
History
- Debian 9 (Stretch): the text shown here
- Debian 8 (Jessie)
- Debian 7 (Wheezy)
- Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
- Debian 5.0 (Lenny)