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[Mark Marlette]

Paul,

Boisy has all of this in SuperDriver package.

Mark
Cloud-9


At 9/30/2005 05:42 PM, you wrote:
>Curtis,
>
>Yes, a "visual on-screen display"
>of what's on the IDE drive itself.
>(not it's format)
>The factory installed parameters
>that reside on the drive platter.
>
>Basically, the cylinders, heads, sector
>counts and any other stuff like whether
>it supports LBA or not.
>
>I'd write it myself, but I'm busy.
>
>Paul - idezilla
>
>--- "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
>wrote:
>
> >     Do you mean from the hard drive itself (IDE
> > identification) or what is
> > formatted onto the hard drive? My DETECT_IDE
> > basic09 program for the last
> > version of the Glenside drivers already has a
> > built in asking the drive to
> > identify itself, and I have notes in the source
> > code that some really old
> > drives may NOT report the information properly.
> >
> > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:00:29 -0600, Paul T.
> > Barton <idezilla at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Roger,
> > >
> > > I'd like to have (either rsdos-basic
> > > or nitros9) a program that would
> > > dump out the information sector of
> > > hard-drives so that I can see what
> > > the parameters are. This I can use when
> > > determining what an old drive sized as.
> > > For instance, www.bgmicro.com is selling
> > > 810mb laptop drives for about $5 but
> > > without labels. These are plenty big
> > > enough for NitrOS-9 use.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Paul - idezilla
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>
>
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