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The DISK_GEOMETRY structure describes the geometry of disk devices and media.

typedef struct _DISK_GEOMETRY { 

   LARGE_INTEGER  Cylinders; 

   MEDIA_TYPE  MediaType; 

   DWORD  TracksPerCylinder; 

   DWORD  SectorsPerTrack; 

   DWORD  BytesPerSector; 

} DISK_GEOMETRY ; 

 

Members

Cylinders

The number of cylinders.

MediaType

The type of media. See MEDIA_TYPE.

TracksPerCylinder

The number of tracks per cylinder.

SectorsPerTrack

The number of sectors per track.

BytesPerSector

The number of bytes per sector

Remarks

The DeviceIoControl function receives a DISK_GEOMETRY structure in response to an IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY device input and output contol (IOCTL) operation. The DeviceIoControl function receives an array of DISK_GEOMETRY structures in response to an IOCTL_DISK_GET_MEDIA_TYPES device I/O operation.

See Also

DeviceIoControl, IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY, IOCTL_DISK_GET_MEDIA_TYPES, MEDIA_TYPE