Re: Geometry for 128MB CF cards

Chuck Yerkes <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Jun 2002 23:23:28 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.embedded
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Quoting James Nedila ([email protected]):
> >On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 04:46:01PM -0700, James Nedila wrote:
> >>You wouldn't happen to have the geometry for a SanDisk 128MB card would you?
> Just for the record, SanDisk and Transcend 128MB geometry is:
> 
> 980 cylinders
> 8 heads
> 32 sectors
> 250880 total sectors


Hmmm, so what stops us from say:
1 head, 1 cyclinder (both pretty true) and 250880 sectors?

I don't really want the file system's help writing inodes
"near" the data, or backup superblocks or spare space (it's
not read/write on mine).

chuck