How many tracks on my hard disk ?

[Ayman Altounji]

Someone knows where I can find the number of tracks of my 18'000 rpm 9,1Gb ultrawide scsi3 hot plug compaq hard disk ?
I don't find it anywhere on this site ...

[Ayman Altounji]

I'm not sure why anyone would need this since the controller deals with that automatically and you do NOT have the ability to change the settings... This is not an IDE drive...

But anyway...

Formatted Capacity (GB)
18.2

Cylinders
10,042

Heads
12

Sectors/Track
229 - 334 (24 Zones)

Bytes/Sector
512

[Ayman Altounji]

Thank very much for your reply.
Well, I don't find the average sustained rate for this disk on this web site.
So, I just wanted to compute it myself
avg sustained transfer rate = rpm / 60 * number of sectors per track *512
where number of sector per track = capacity / heads / cylinders / 512 = 360
So, avg sustained transfer rate = rpm / 60 * 360 * 512 = 30MB/s for sequential read
I those specs are important, and they should be available on this site...

[Ayman Altounji]

The firmware routines on the hard drive vary revolution speed/transfer rate depending on which track is being read - you can approimate, but accurately determining the transfer rate would require some lab equipment.
The decision on which info to put on a website and which to leave out is up to marketing - Your comments DO matter. (thank you). If enough folks ask for specific information, it will get put on the website.