New QDISK utility now available!

I've just finished writing a small utility to probe the IDE ports and
scan for hard disks, print out models and revision, and their CHS
geometry.

I think I've learned a lot about programming the IDE devices by writing
this little utility. Next revision will deal with SATA devices - anyone
care to point me at documentation and/or sample sources for handling
SATA? Thanks.

Feel free to have a play, it's now available for downloads at:
http://www.munted.org.uk/programming/qdisk.zip
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Fearsome grindings.

Alex Buell wrote:
> I've just finished writing a small utility to probe the IDE ports and
> scan for hard disks, print out models and revision, and their CHS
> geometry.
>
> I think I've learned a lot about programming the IDE devices by writing
> this little utility. Next revision will deal with SATA devices - anyone
> care to point me at documentation and/or sample sources for handling
> SATA? Thanks.
>
> Feel free to have a play, it's now available for downloads at:
> http://www.munted.org.uk/programming/qdisk.zip

404

I'll try again later. Did I tell you how much I like your color scheme?

Best,
Frank

> this little utility. Next revision will deal with SATA devices - anyone
> care to point me at documentation and/or sample sources for handling
> SATA? Thanks.

Here is the binary and ASM source of a tool I wrote. It handles SATA
devices as well:

http://www.japheth.de/Download/idecheck.zip

On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:07:55 GMT, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of Frank Kotler:
 
>
> 404
>
> I'll try again later. Did I tell you how much I like your color
> scheme?

404?

It ought to be there - can you try again?
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Fearsome grindings.

Alex Buell wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 08:07:55 GMT, I waved a wand and this message
> magically appears in front of Frank Kotler:
>
> 
>
>
> 404?
>
> It ought to be there - can you try again?

Yup! Got it. Haven't looked at it yet... Thanks, Alex!

Best,
Frank

Alex Buell wrote:
> I've just finished writing a small utility to probe the IDE ports and
> scan for hard disks, print out models and revision, and their CHS
> geometry.
>
> I think I've learned a lot about programming the IDE devices by
> writing this little utility. Next revision will deal with SATA
> devices - anyone care to point me at documentation and/or sample
> sources for handling SATA? Thanks.
>
> Feel free to have a play, it's now available for downloads at:
> http://www.munted.org.uk/programming/qdisk.zip

I think it doesn't work for me.  This is the output:

D:\Downloads\qdisk\qdisk>qdisk
QDISK v0.1 (C) 2008 Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>

Interface 01F0 detected
Interface 0170 not detected
Interface 01E8 not detected
Interface 0168 not detected

D:\DOWNLO~1\qdisk\qdisk>


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tazmaster@rocketmail.com

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:24:53 -0700, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of Jim Langston:

>
> I think it doesn't work for me.  This is the output:
>
> D:\Downloads\qdisk\qdisk>qdisk
> QDISK v0.1 (C) 2008 Alex Buell <alex.buell@munted.org.uk>
>
> Interface 01F0 detected
> Interface 0170 not detected
> Interface 01E8 not detected
> Interface 0168 not detected
>
> D:\DOWNLO~1\qdisk\qdisk>

Ah, what type and make of hard disks do you have attached? To what
interfaces? Thanks that'd be helpful.
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Fearsome grindings.

Alex,
Didn't work for me either. Program was run
in Windows 98 SE. Showed all 4 ports not detected.
Seagate 120 GB drive on PATA port 1.
Motherboard MSI 6590
Chip set VIA KT400 (VT8377)
South bridge Via VT8235
Lpcio Winbond W83697HF
AMI Bios  Athalon XP 1700 CPU

Hope this helps,
Mark Whitlock

Alex,
Sorry ,I spoke too soon.
Runs fine in native dos ,windows
just mucks it up.
Mark

You cannot use port I/O accesses to the system drive under Windows.
Try DOS or change the msdos.sys file to stop at a DOS prompt before
running win.com.

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:25:26 -0700 (PDT), Mark Whitlock
<spamtrap@crayne.org> wrote:

>Alex,
>    Didn't work for me either. Program was run
>in Windows 98 SE. Showed all 4 ports not detected.
>Seagate 120 GB drive on PATA port 1.
>Motherboard MSI 6590
>Chip set VIA KT400 (VT8377)
>South bridge Via VT8235
>Lpcio Winbond W83697HF
>AMI Bios  Athalon XP 1700 CPU
>
>Hope this helps,
>    Mark Whitlock