[Coco] Dump out the information sector of HD's
Stephen H. Fischer
SFischer1 at MindSpring.com
Sat Oct 1 19:25:09 EDT 2005
Hi,
The DECB program I wrote for SCSI drives is on RTSI. It may help even though
it was written for Seagate drives.
It reads a lot of HD information and writes it to a floppy disk file.
Just do not ask it to do a format if you do not wish to format the drive.
RTSI-root \RSDOS\UTIL\FmtSCSI.bas
Stephen H. Fischer
Paul T. Barton 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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