Hi, I found an old program which can display IDE's information. But no information who code it. I think it can be distributed.
http://johnson.tmfc.net/file/ide.exe I hope the information can help to trouble shoot the format problem. Here's result of my office's SEAGATE hard disk: ===== DRIVE 1 Adapter 0 at base address 1f0h Disk Reports BIOS Reports Default Current # of Cylinders______:6296 6296 787 # of Heads__________: 16 16 128 # of Sectors/Track__: 63 63 63 Model Number________: ST33210A Serial Number_______: 7AB05DNV Controller Rev. #___: 1.70 Double Word Transfer: No Controller type_____: Not specified/Unknown Buffer size (kB)____: 256 # of ECC bytes______: 0 # of secs/interrupt_: 16 Current setting 16 LBA support Yes3098.8MB of LBA addressable 3098.8MB in CHS mode DMA support Yes IORDY supported Yes IORDY can be disabled Yes PIO data txfer cycle timing mode: 2 SW DMA txfer cycle timing modes: Active MW DMA txfer cycle timing modes: Active 2 Congratulations, your drive supports ATA-2 Advanced PIO txfer modes supported: Min MW DMA txfer cycle time/word: 120 ns 16.7MB/s Mfg Recommended MW DMA txfer Cycle Time 120 ns 16.7MB/s Min PIO txfer Cycle Time w/o Flow Control 240 ns 8.3MB/s Min PIO txfer Cycle Time w IORDY Flow Control 120 ns 16.7MB/s ===== I've try 4 combination of kernel 2035/2035a, FreeCOM 0.82pl3 and 0.82pl3ak. Format still complain "5 consecutive bad sector" as before. But I can boot Win98 and using FORMAT 0.91s to format the hard disk. Sorry for the long mail. Rgds, Johnson. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
