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Operating Systems Solaris How do I find out how many data cylinders a disk has?
# 8  
Old 01-06-2009
You don't get to the BIOS from Solaris or whatever OS. You get to the BIOS before the OS boots.

Have you an idea about the three other disks size / geometry ?

I would try 30515 data cylinders as the system seems to detect there are 30517 cylinders including 2 alternate ones.
# 9  
Old 01-06-2009
this command can say the cylinders of an h/d
Quote:
prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c*d*s2
# 10  
Old 01-06-2009
You might use "fdisk -G device" if you are using an x86 based platform, eg:

Code:
# fdisk -G /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0
    * Physical geometry for device /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0p0
    * PCYL     NCYL     ACYL     BCYL     NHEAD NSECT SECSIZ
      8924     8924     0        0        255   63    512
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