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[Paul T. Barton]

Curtis,

Yes, a "visual on-screen display"
of what's on the IDE drive itself.
(not it's format)
The factory installed parameters
that reside on the drive platter.

Basically, the cylinders, heads, sector
counts and any other stuff like whether
it supports LBA or not.

I'd write it myself, but I'm busy.

Paul - idezilla

--- "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
wrote:

>     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
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