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[L. Curtis Boyle]

    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

>

> --- 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