Gary Pigott burst across the net:
>Does anyone know if there exists a way of querying the BIOS for the HDD size?
>I need to write a program to partition a drive with different partition
>sizes depending on the drive size.
>>Any takers?
i think the authors of fdisk took you up on some of the fundementals
several years ago. use the source luke, er, gary.
i'm betting it's an ioctl on the device file. grep for ioctl
calls.
kevin
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