The command newfs -N is being used to fetch the details of a fixed disk, like sectors, tracks, cylinders, size. This seems to have stopped working from MAC 10.6 onwards. I am searching for an alternate command to fetch these details.
OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
Also looking for command to list drive details on a machine. pdisk is not working on mac intel.
Try diskutil
diskutil does not have any options to list sectors/tracks/cylinders for a disk. This is not working for my scenario.
Modern disks use Logical Block Addressing; CHS is pretty much dead, since is requires to the OS to know low-level details about the disk geometry. That's what drive controllers do now.
get fixed drive details, newfs -N deprecated
