[CoCo] CoCo3.com

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Paul 

Older versions of Symantic tools that ran on Windoze 95 allowed viewing the 
disk info. I seem to rember that the hard disk info sat on sector zero of track 
zero. The first 512 bytes is all the disk parameters. Heads, sectors and a bunch 
of other stuff.

I seem to rember the executable was Disk Doctor or Disk Edit! I remember using 
them because Norton's Disk Lock crashed and cross threaded the fat tables for a 
120 MByte disk. It took me 2 days to recover the disk at work. 

james


On 30 Sep 2005 at 12:00, Paul T. Barton wrote:

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> 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
> 
> --- Roger Taylor <roger at newfoal.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello gang,
> > 
> --snipped--
> > So, with this being said, I think this is a
> > great time to produce some new 
> > things.  Please send your ideas.
> > 
> > The question is, what do we need this winter to
> > keep us busy with our CoCos?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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