From: "Greg Tada" <gtada@hotmail.com>
Subject: 1Gig Microdrive Help
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:52:59 -0700

> I'm trying to install NetBSD on my z50 for the first time, and I'm kinda 
> stuck on the hard drive "BIOS geometry(?)" for the 1 gig microdrive. It 
> states that the physical geometry is 2088 cylinders, 16 sectors, and 63 
> heads. It states that the best guess is 522 cylinders, 64 sectors, 63 heads. 
> What should I use?

Here is my Microdrive Information.
wd0 at wdc1 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-DSCM-11000>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 1027 MB, 2088 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2104704 sectors

NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 2088 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 522 heads: 64 sectors/track: 63 (4032 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 6 (Primary 'big' DOS, 16-bit FAT (> 32MB))
    start 63, size 61425 (29 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder   15, head  15, sector 63
1: <UNUSED>
2: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 61489, size 2043215 (997 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder   15, head  16, sector  2
        end: cylinder  521, head  63, sector 63
3: <UNUSED>

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jun ebihara