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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