C/H/S from user space

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

For those who think that C/H/S translation is useful,
attached is a simple program that gets whatever the BIOS
used from user-space. If you have large media (most do),
you will descover that C/H/S is useless because it is
always set to "MAX" like this:

 	Disk parameter table(s) at vector 0x41
Disk0
     Cylinders = 1024
       Sectors = 63
         Heads = 255
Write precomp = 0
  Landing zone = 65296
 	Reserved bit 0 set
 	Reserved bit 1 set
 	Reserved bit 2 set
 	More than 8 heads
 	Reserved bit 4 set
 	Defect map present
 	Disable retries
 	Disable retries
Disk1
     Cylinders = 306
       Sectors = 1
         Heads = 4
Write precomp = 0
  Landing zone = 12544
 	Disk parameter table(s) at vector 0x46
Disk0
     Cylinders = 306
       Sectors = 1
         Heads = 4
Write precomp = 0
  Landing zone = 12544
Disk1
     Cylinders = 306
       Sectors = 1
         Heads = 4
Write precomp = 0
  Landing zone = 12544


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.15.4 on an i686 machine (5589.55 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
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