[CoCo] CoCo3.com

[L. Curtis Boyle]

     From what I remember, most of the sector 0 is the bootstrap code, with  
a little table at the end for primary partitions (4, I think).
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:00:53 -0600, <jdaggett at gate.net> wrote:

> 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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> Date sent:      	Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:00:29 -0700 (PDT)
> From:           	"Paul T. Barton" <idezilla at yahoo.com>
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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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L. Curtis Boyle