drive geometry values in macosx

[Patryk £ogiewa]

Hi group,

looking for info on reading the block devices' geometry values on MacOS
X - 10.2.x

Any clues?

Thanks in advance.

[Terje]

In article <bg8dqo$lq68b$2@ID-200323.news.uni-berlin.de>,
Patryk ?ogiewa <silverdr@inet.pl> wrote:

> Hi group,
>
> looking for info on reading the block devices' geometry values on MacOS
> X - 10.2.x
>
> Any clues?

I suggest just read the first part of the device to determine what file
system it is, then find partitions, then each partition has the
information you want at specific places on the disk.

Terje

[Patryk 'Silver Dream !' £ogiewa]

Terje wrote:

>

>>Hi group,
>>
>>looking for info on reading the block devices' geometry values on MacOS
>>X - 10.2.x
>>
>>Any clues?

>
>
> I suggest just read the first part of the device to determine what file
> system it is, then find partitions, then each partition has the
> information you want at specific places on the disk.

That would be easy. But what I need is to get the information from the
device, not filesystem. Why? Because there is no filesystem on the drive
and I need this info because I am going to create a filesystem there.
And, as you pointed out, I need to PUT this information at specific
place on the disk. Under Linux, I can at least get it from /proc but
need this on Darwin.