New QDISK utility now available!

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:25:26 -0700 (PDT), I waved a wand and this
message magically appears in front of Mark Whitlock:

>     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

Ah - Qdisk doesn't work under Windows at all. I'll add a check for this.
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Fearsome grindings.

"japheth" <spamtrap@crayne.org> wrote in message
news:6c5f30b6-8f86-4adf-a5ef-54ef52ec8d59@u69g2000hse.googlegroups.com... 
>
> 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
>

I only started up and ESC'd idecheck 0 or idecheck 1, but seems to work...
on two old machines, 3 HD's.

RP

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

Hmm.. same here.  I ran it under NT DOS not native DOS.

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Jim Langston
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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:24:43 -0700, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of dave:

> 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.

Not to worry, I can add a check for this and just not work if it find
itself running under Windows.
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Fearsome grindings.

"Alex Buell" <spamtrap@crayne.org> wrote in message
news:20080330004438.6b493055.alex.buell@munted.org.uk...
> 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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> http://www.munted.org.uk
>
> Fearsome grindings.
>

Works for me on two machines, 3 HD's.

RP