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Returns information about the physical disk's geometry (media type, number of cylinders, tracks per cylinder, sectors per track, and bytes per sector).
The difference between IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY_EX and the older IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY request is that IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY_EX can retrieve information from both Master Boot Record (MBR) and GUID Partition Table (GPT) type partitioned media, whereas IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY can only read MBR style media.
Parameters.DeviceIoControl.OutputBufferLength in the I/O stack location of the IRP indicates the size in bytes of the buffer, which must be >= sizeof(DISK_GEOMETRY_EX).
The driver returns the DISK_GEOMETRY_EX data in the buffer at Irp->AssociatedIrp.SystemBuffer.
The Information field is set to the size in bytes of the returned data. The Status field can be set to STATUS_SUCCESS, or possibly to STATUS_UNRECOGNIZED_MEDIA, STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER, STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST, STATUS_INFO_LENGTH_MISMATCH, STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES, or STATUS_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL.
Defined in ntdddisk.h. Include ntdddisk.h.